My fear is Donald popped in to protect the status quo from Cruz.Whenever we have a potential real change agent they must be defeated or destroyed. My fear is if Donald gets in things mainly stay the same.
You have it backwards.
Trump did not vote for TPA or the Corker bill.
Cruz was never the change agent.
Without Trump it would be Jeb, Rubio or Kasich heading for the nomination. Cruz was never going to overcome his Huckabee problem: Only appealing to a narrow evangelical base.
[My fear is Donald popped in to protect the status quo from Cruz.]
Wishful thinking. But in reality, Cruz was barely a blip on the radar last year. Only favored by far right Tea Party voters.
This was supposed to be Jeb’s coronation for the get go. Cruz wouldn’t even have made it to Iowa if Trump didn’t come in and demolish the top GOPe’s (Jeb, Walker, Perry).
That’s the only reason Cruz is even part of the conversation anymore. And Cruz thanks Trump with a knidea in the back.
If Trump wasn’t running Cruz would be long gone.
Cruz couldn’t survive 10% of the attacks Trump takes on a daily basis.
Cruz owes his present political life to Trump.
“My fear is Donald popped in to protect the status quo from Cruz”
Yeah, he gave up a two-hundred million dollar show, and is taking this assault by all sides to help Hillary. Idiocy...
Opposition to Trump seems to be based completely on emotional reactions to hysterical perceptions.
Funny, that’s exactly my problem with Cruz. First, his base of true conservatives is too narrow to win in November. Second, as President, his strict adherence to the constitution will earn him the eternal admiration of his core constituency, but it won’t make him an effective agent for change. Articulating conservative principles does not translate into forcing change, because the progressive left does not listen to reason.
Real change is going to require a type of street fighting Republicans are not used to, and do not find attractive. Trump fights, and he doesn’t care what the broomstick up the arse republican hoity toity types think of him. That’s why I think he might as President actually “throw the rascals out”.