I greatly admire Cruz as well. In some ways, that’s why I don’t want to see him put through the shredding that being President would be for him.
I think Trump has a far bigger club to bludgeon his enemies with than Cruz does. There will be many, many of those, for either one of them, and they will have blood in their eyes and their whatevers.
I agree with you about the ‘shredding’ machine that our political process has become.
But a person like Trump, who has already made his mark, can handle it. I think Trump relishes the game; his energy amazes me; and while I think he would find the Presidency a great honor, which he would take very seriously - who can deny that after the life of accomplishment that he’s led, it would in some ways be ‘gravy’?
A great way for a man who has wondrously benefited from our traditional American System of opporunity- and realizes it! - to give back.
-JT