"Defend our values" is a potential recipe for getting trapped in all sorts of local quagmires where US interests are not at stake.
Read the original statement. Put it in context. Then put it into context of what Ted Cruz is about, unless you can’t judge character and behaviors, and are victim to propaganda such as this.
If you come away with Ted Cruz doing anything above and beyond what the Constitution allows for and stands for, then there’s nothing to be done. You’re one of them by virtue of propaganda prone, brainwashable.
Look at the statement.
Why people believe some troll over what the candidates actually say, do and mean is something I cannot fix, crazy as it is.