I know, it’s actually very sad that we wind up at odds with these people.
Trump is a demagogue. Now, I say that with the caution that so was Shakespeare’s Mark Anthony, and maybe the real man. The greater Orator Demosthenes was one, and maybe Patrick Henry. Except Trump is something of a paradox: the plutocrat as rabble-rouser. He has a great ear for the average guy. the guy who really lacks the capacity to argue. The client of the lawyer rather than the lawyer. Trump makes him feel on the same level., Cruz’s weakness is that he can’t do that.
I forgot Aaron Burr and (his bastard son?) Martin Van Buren.