He has some features that are excellent that look like they dovetail with what is absolutely necessary.
Does that make him worth worship? No. But neither does it position him for sneering. Cruz refuses to sneer at him. How about taking a lesson from YOUR “hero.”
And I am not running so I need not worry about playing nice to liberal Donald Trump. Cruz is running and I believe he plays nice because he is nice and because he may want Trump to endorse him.