Agreed, I like both, and during primaries preferred Cruz, but in hindsight have decided the voters knew better than me, as Trump was better equipped to both prevail over Hillary (none of the others could flip the midwest while holding the states won last time), and also to move forward the agenda that they both support once in office.
Trump is probably the only one who could withstand the assault he has been under. And had Cruz won, the assault would have been just as brutal.
But now that we’ve seen what they can do, it will have less effect next time. Its like what they did to Bork. People never forgave it, and when they tried to “Bork” Judge Thomas, it didn’t work.
Having seen what they have tried to do to Trump, when they try to do it to the next guy we’ll be even more determined to see it through. In another era we might have thought, where there’s smoke there’s fire. Now we know better.