The BLM issue is tailor made for Cruz - and not just related to Bundy - but to a few major questions:
Like WTF is the US Govt doing owning 80% of Nevada?
WTF does the gov own 1/8th of the entire country?
Why do they have their own army run by an unknown unelected unaccountable bureaucrat who was appointed by Dirty Harry Reid?
This is just the tip of a big ugly iceberg.
One could spend years digging through the layers upon layers of corruption between the BLM, the Sierra Club (and other green democrat front groups) and the Democrat party itself.
The businesses destroyed or driven out of areas under its control, the landowners denied full use of their land, the land stripped under environmental laws that are bills of attainder by another name...it is endless.
I use the Off-road racing/recreation angle since that was my area in the 90s and early 00s. People wanting to see how far back this goes should read/search the name “Rick Sieman” and “Barstow to Vegas”. Now to be sure the BLM was at work screwing people before that, but as I say, this is the area I’m most familiar with.
Rick was my mentor in journalism and I got the inside story of the whole mess. And their tactics and intent have not changed in all these years...just that now they are more bold about them.