At one point in Wayne’s World (the movie), they are trying their schtick of “homosezwhut” on Christopher Walken and he’s not falling for it, and in fact, he calls them on exactly what they are doing. They cower in fear.
This is what Cruz is doing to the left and the MSM.
Here it is - two little jerks trying to get a man to humiliate himself and he schools them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQdJ07y8Z8