Everybody loves Trump except neurotic people and sociopaths. That's why you find it hard to believe, because Cruz has to seduce, and lie, and find freaks and weirdos willing to sell their soul to Satan in order to follow him into hell. That takes more than 24 hours ordinarily for Cruzer.
Yep, that’s exactly why he is getting 38% of votes.
>Everybody loves Trump except neurotic people and sociopaths.
I think in the July 2015 to January 2016 timeframe, a given FReeper might have fallen either way. Cruz’s positions were pretty good, even if *cough* some of them were follow-ons to Trump’s statements. I particularly liked the idea of abolishing the IRS.
However, once the primaries started, Cruz, or his team, or both, adopted tactics that are entirely at odds with his own principles.
Ya know how the more-Conservative-than-thou crowd has been talking for 8 years about how losses were ok because the Dem policies will cause the populace to wake up? It happened — sure, due to Zero, but also due to the Rs entirely abdicating conservatism. Now, everyone has no patience to put up with party ‘rules’ and the usual paternalistic BS; and by adopting their means, Cruz won tactically for a while but is losing the strategic fight.
While some of Trump’s stuff isn’t my favorite — I’m more an Alan Keyes kind of guy — his lack of the personal social conservative (IMO big government, just targeting leftward) will pull in a lot of anti-Uniparty Bernie guys.
Bern has done a great service to us by pulling H so far left that we can occupy the whole middle, and by highlighting that her base is really the 1%, not the 99% (to use an Occupy meme).