Bush Left office with about 20% support. I submit to you that that had a lot to do with how the media decided to portray him. It will work, in todays current PC environment, against Cruz and it will not work against Trump (As we’ve seen over the course of the campaign). I expect that at the end of a Cruz Presidency Abortion on demand is still the law, gay marriage is still the excepted and promoted and there will continue to be rampant illegal immigration. At the end of a Trump Presidency Abortion on demand is still law, gay marriage will still be the norm, a wall will be built on the border with Mexico, political correctness will be utterly damaged and the Media will be grossly weakened. In this environment a Cruz Presidency would mean that gay Marriage could be rolled back and abortion on demand will not be accepted and Cruz can move the country hard right. I’m not against Cruz I just don’t think his Presidency works best in the current environment
That is very similar to what I’ve been saying lately, so allow me to harmonize.
Trump is a populist/deconstructionist candidate. And he is what we need right now. The system is so stacked against small government conservatives and in favor of the elites and establishment that we NEED someone to tear it down. From my best guess, Cruz might be able to damage it, but Trump is the candidate best positioned to rip the elitist establishment apart.
After that, a conservative/reconstructionist Cruz candidacy would be perfectly poised to re-establish the Constitutional limits on what’s left of the establishment.
And for those who may be concerned about Cruz’s squishiness on the immigration issue, a Trump presidency, if successful, should take that matter mostly off the table, or at least it will be less absolutely-freaking-vital than it is now.