“Cruz’s mistake was running a campaign of ideolgoical purity in a year when voters are fed up with poltics as usual.”
I’ve been thinking about why Ted is self-destructing and my conclusion is that Ted started his Presidential run well before Trump was a factor and was unable to pivot to a different, longer term strategy when Trump came in and totally blew up the entire political scene.
I think Ted had it all calculated out about how he could beat a big field of split RINOs, and then Trump came in and beat him at his own game, and Ted simply could not accept temporary defeat and live to fight again on another day.