However you have to twist it to make it sound right in your head.
Just know that to everyone without your imagination skills, it comes off as fruitloops.
Like Trump himself, FRUMPSTERS aren’t wed to one position on anything, not even calling a tossed coin, where you can have a fantasy world where Cruz is both an insider and despised by insiders. And in your reality they don’t dislike him for working against them, which he does, NO in your world they dislike him because he’s smarmy (because no one else is smarmy).
I’ll translate into something you can understand more easily:
Cruz is not a cool kid but wants to be one.