The question you should be asking is why, if there are so many like-minded people in the Senate, has Cruz apparently alienated so many, even to the point of getting Rand Paul (whom I'm not fond of but who could be an ally) to be his enemy?
It doesn't concern you at all that a man who wants to be the nation's leader has been unable to get more than one senator to follow him on anything?
” ... Cruz apparently alienated so many, even to the point of getting Rand Paul (whom I’m not fond of but who could be an ally) to be his enemy.”
Sure; Paul would be a natural ally of Cruz’s, except on some minor issues like abortion, immigration, national defense, ... Paul is a libertarian at his core, and his stated positions on these and other matters have “evolved” only because of his cynical (and failed) attempt to attract mainstream conservatives during his campaign for the Republican nomination.
You wrote “It doesn’t concern you at all that a man who wants to be the nation’s leader has been unable to get more than one senator to follow him on anything?”
What that means is that only one senator is not totally corrupted and will follow him.
The other senators range from: kind of corrupted to more corrupted to really corrupted to “Whoa Nellie!” The Senate is a den of snakes and has a Republican majority that has voted almost all legislation the house passed.
Gee! I wonder how that happened?