What I am saying is the next president is going to be a dictator whether he likes it or not. I doubt Cruz can operate in that milieu. To get anything done against a solidly oppositional Congress, he will have to do extraConstitutional things. I can’t see him doing that. The only tactic I can see him perhaps being successful with is getting the states to call an Article 5 convention.
Or Cruz can pull a Reagan and go directly to the people and persuade them of the validity of his positions.
If he can do that (and I believe he has the smarts and demeanor to do just that)he doesn’t need Congress.