With all due respect to you BroJoek, Cruz may be a social conservative as am I, and he was my first choice. But as I learned about his globalism, Dominionism, Corporatism and duplicity, I had to conclude that he was not good on the Conservative basics of this country which sees as part of the Natural Law the Principle of Subsidiarity e.g. that patriotism, loyalty to faith, family and country first rather than huge give aways with trade deals ultimately resulting in a Union of the Americas was the antithesis of Conservatism. Read Kirk.
There is a huge swath of Christians who do not see the danger of power in Globalist hands. I am not one. I hope many social Conservaties begin to understand that. It will ultimately destroy Christianity itself as a facet of influence in the public square
Jesus told us that only God is holy, so I don't expect holiness from my politicians, even the best of them.
But at the time, Cruz did seem to me the best of them, and I was not alone.
Sean Hannity has been mentioned favorably here often, and he gave Cruz a more than fair hearing, imho.
Trump is not as conservative as I'd like, but if he can get more working-class people to switch from Dems to the good-guys, I'd give him credit for a lot.
Then we could add to the old "Reagan Democrats" new "Trump Democrats" and they could counteract the millions of illegal aliens, ex-cons & dead people voting for Hillary.