The states and the people must get much more active in saving THEIR Constitution and THEIR freedom. Reagan was one of our greatest Presidents and he could only cut taxes and defeat the USSR. Defeating the USSR was/is easier than taking down the unconstitutional $3 trillion part of the $4 trillion federal government.
IMO, the only way its going to happen is if some state somewhere has enough people with their heads screwed on straight that says "NO" to unconstitutional federal acts. The unconstitutional $3 trillion portion of the $4 trillion federal government simply won't get fixed. The corresponding hundreds of thousands of federal workers, bureaucratic heads, and officials will simply not quit and go home without a job and there is no known force, including Cruz, that can make them.
So a state that does this is a kind of last refuge and where possibly we'll take a stand for freedom and fight for it if necessary.
Only if Cruz drops that idea about normalizing the illegals- even after securing the borders,20 to 40 million new and voting Democrats nullifies whatever good he might do. There is NO republican who does not desire that Permanent Democrat State. Cruz and the rest just think it will come after one of them has done his 8 years.