By the end, even the people who cast ballots for him couldn't stomach him-and said so publicly.
Cruz is an example of how you can’t fool all the people all of the time.
He talked a good game and managed to capture quite a few conservatives who were thirsting desperately for someone, anyone, to actually stand up for our interests, and he used that to try to further his own ambitions.
But then Trump showed up and proved who was the better candidate, and Cruz fell apart and revealed who he really was. His former supporters probably hate him even more than the people who were opposed to him from the beginning. Just another politician who talks a good game and then shivs us in the back, and we’d sent him money that we couldn’t afford too.
I don’t know why there are still a bunch of sore Cruzers around who loathe Trump with a passion. Sunk cost fallacy, perhaps.