Trump understands how to gull much of the public with his oompah band, his Barnum and Bailey sideshows and his low rent campaign. The American people have to get this crap out of our system every now and then. Unfortunately in this case it will put Comrade Grandma in the White House to finish the demolition of the SCOTUS, the fedcourts, and the constitution, the military, the babies, normal marriage and keep those floodgates from impeding the illegal immigration.
As the Executive Officer said to the soviet submarine captain hunting Red October who took the safeties off his torpedos resulting in his torpedo doubling back on his sub: "You ass, you've destroyed us!" a moment before the torpedo sunk his sub. But, by damn, the soviet sub commander MEANT well (from his POV) and that's all that counts, right?
Don't count Trump's "results" until the evening of the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. He will clean up his act (IF nominated) or he will be crushed by a disgusted public. His foul mouth and bad manners and bully tactics and lies have actually made him a more malodorous alternative to even Her Royal Thighness. He's a DOER. So is Charles Manson. That was not easy to accomplish.
And you have heard of sarcasm, haven't you? God knows everything and knows full well what The Donald (who claims never to have repented a sin in his life) is up to and The Donald who is going to be 70 in June should get some instruction in the Art of Repentance before he meets his Maker.
The most concrete reason Cruz supporters have demonstrated for defending him to the death is that never before have Dominionists and like-minded people been this close to getting one of their own into the White House, where they could use the power of that office against "pagans"—i.e., everyone they disagree with. With recent events in Colorado, the religious angle is becoming passé; and Cruz's supporters are replacing the religious rhetoric with spamming this board, and the entire media, with objectively false information about the "election" process.