I look at it this way - if we don't get it right on the constellation of "national sovereignty and culture/demographics" issues, then nothing else matters.
I look at the Cruzers who attack the Trumpers and I see a bunch of buffoons jibber-jabbering about abortion and eminent domain and donations to Clinton a decade ago.
What I DON'T see are people who have any sort of clue as to what is really at stake.
If we don't get these issues like immigration, trade, Muslims, etc. right, then nothing else matters. They literally DO. NOT. MATTER. In twenty years, once the Democrats are getting permanent supermajorities, it will not matter. Abortion? You'll never even get a minor rollback again. Gay stuff? You'll never see any of it rolled back. Taxes and fiscal responsibility and free market and all that other stuff? Nada, once you've got all these millions of folks from Latin America and Africa and Asia turned into good little voters for the Democrats.
Priorities. There are some folks who need to get them.
Cruz supporters have priorities. Constitutional ones. They solve everything.
That is an excellent, first rate, top notch summary.
Here’s the shorthand version.
The patient is dying on the operating table. One doctor wants to treat an array of serious medical issues—all but the one that’s immediately killing the patient. The other wants to treat the imminently life threatening issue first and foremost.
The even shorter version: Trump is better at triage than and of the other candidates.