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Nowhere in his rhetoric will you find any reference to America's pre-existing cultural and legal traditions, or to the necessary bounds that free men insist be imposed upon the state. There is no talk of "freedom"; no reflexive grounding of ideas in the Declaration and the Federalist Papers; no conceptual explanation or underlying philosophy. There is nothing, except will to power [i.e., his preoccupation with poll numbers]
By his own admission, Trump's are the politics of doing enthusiastically what works in the moment [he's not principled but a pragmatist, i.e., Kelo]; of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt; of the administrative state and of bureaucratic expertise; of the Prussians and the French and the Singaporeans. Whatever he might claim before his adoring crowds, Trump is not in fact an antidote to Barack Obama. He is his parallel.

I wish the Trump supporters would put the pom-poms down for a minute and think about this.

It's sobering.

Trump has done some good things, including giving the other candidates a spine, but we need a principled, intelligent, courageous president with a solid track record, like Cruz.

Funny, in all the years Hillary has been on the scene - what is it 100 years now? I’ve never heard her mention the Federalist Papers. And, let’s face it, that hag was alive when they were written. And Sanders? He’d use the Papers to sneeze in.

Trump is no intellectual. But he has an innate American ability to understand where the country is at the moment and where it is going if we continue down the road we’ve walked along with Clinton and Obama. If he brings in Cruz, we will then have an intellectual component in the government. That could be an awesome combination.

Trump has done some good things, including giving the other candidates a spine, but we need a principled, intelligent, courageous president with a solid track record, like Cruz.

Done some good things?? 20 years ago a candidate like Cruz would have been good. Today, however, we’re in a war for the preservation of our Republic. This will require a fighter who doesn’t care to play politics. Trump is at a point is his life and career where he doesn’t give a crap what people think and is about as anti-PC as they come. The GOPe, the Dems and the DC establishment (lobbyists, lawyers, pundits) are very, very, worried because they see the gravy train possibly ending. Cruz, for all his strong points, IF (and that’s a big if) were to win the general election would have a very difficult time getting things done because he is despised in Congress, despised by the media, and needs the money from big donors. Trump is despised too, but he has the chutzpah, and gravitas, to get things done, and doesn’t need anyone’s money to get there. Four years of Trump will start to turn the ship around where, maybe, someone like Cruz can run with the ball from there.