I voted for Cruz. He chose Jeff Roe. He allowed surrogates to start the nastiness between them. I told everyone six months earlier that hiring Roe was a bad mistake.
Last night he had the room in his hands. He could have been the bigger man and erased hard feelings against himself and against Trump to help insure a Democrat defeat. He chose not to be the long term thinker and in petulance killed his career. Hardly Russell Kirk who wrote the Politics of Prudence centered around the “art of the possible.”
So many ideologues on the Right think they are ‘conservative’ or ‘conservatives’.
But they are NOT.
A Kirkian conservative NEVER would have went to Iraq for nation-building, but the GOP (and Dems) went there anyway to build utopia in the form of a representative government.
It’s IDEOLOGY that is killing the conservative movement and allowing the Dems to yank the country so hard to the Left that it will eventually have to end in CW2 as the country is simply to large and diverse culturally to exist with only ONE government.
Prudent, but courageous, effective small steps to move the Overton window slowly and assuredly to the middle and then eventually right of center.
Cruz, Levin, and many others are IDEOLOGUES and would rather FEEL GOOD with their wealth in their ‘Scrooge McDuck Money Swim’ than truly do the necessary hard and patient work to build the country back.