Those weren’t debates- they were the equivalent of food fights with Trump hurling insults and name-calling. If Trump went head-to head with Cruz on the issues- he would be shown up for the incoherent flip-flopper he is.
I can’t stand the debate process we go through in America—so dumbed-down.
You maybe right now I really want to see the debate because to your statement- I guess that is one of my points about Trump is he instinctively seems to know his environment and how to act accordingly to control it most of us know how to identify our environment to instinctively fit in (when in Rome).
I suspect in a different environment Trump would act differently and probably prepare differently too. I think he a lot my dynamic then you give him credit.
Most of what Cruz says that passes for great conservative thought you could get out of the last 20 years of the Limbaugh Letter.
The fact that Cruz can't look at trade or anything differently than through the pre information revolution conservative lens is a weakness.
He has not come up with creative new applications of conservatism to deal with some of the uniquely new problems that face modern humanity.
The rote adherence to global trade agreements under the guise of free enterprise needs to be re-examined. Even if not changed the threat of change can make things more fair and push these things toward genuinely free and open markets - I see the Trump approach getting us there. The Cruz TPP globalist view not so much.
Cruz is no Locke or Burke. Trump is uniquely Trump. For someone to come along and hand the establishment its collective butt on a platter, they got a light on it in the attic.