“Someone who has spent their entire working life in politics is establishment. That is Ted Cruz.”
A lie. Go read up on his bio, as he had two stints in private practice.
He's never had to worry about a P&L, never had to worry about hiring/firing, never had to work about making payroll, never had to deal with an irate customer or a deal where a customer tries to leverage future business against a current price break.
He's never really worked in the real world. And no, I don't consider two short stints in a law firm with a focus on Constitutional law where the clients were all being represented in GOVERNMENT issues, the REAL WORLD.
Parse it all you want. Ted Cruz is a lawyer who has spent his entire adult life acting in that capacity AND directly interfacing with the government. He CANNOT and HAS NOT bit the hand that feeds him.
Neil Bush, other Bush money men and having a team of political consultants made up of in the beltway insiders DEMONSTRATES, beyond any doubt, that Ted Cruz is indeed establishment.
That doesn't mean he's tried to fight the more obvious egregious efforts of his COLLEAGUES who sought a different path. He's a good conservative and has at least tried to reel back some of the efforts of the left. But...he's not willing to blow the whole damn thing up when its not working. Incrementalism, in this case, is nothing more than a drop of water into an ocean. It hasn't worked and won't work. And the American people, including Conservatives, see this and know, if we are going to pull back from the ledge of the abyss, doing so one inch at a time over the next 40 years....still leaves us next to the edge of the abyss.