Exactly.
The problem with Cruz is that he is, when you get right down to it, still a politician. He may be conservative, but he's a still a politician, and his first instinct is still to play the Washington game. He still has half a snout in the trough of donor money. As such, even when he wants to do something that's right, he's going to play the game and try to compromise and try to convince the donors, etc. etc. etc.
Trump doesn't care about any of that.
Trump is the man for the hour right now. Cruz can come along once the pieces are picked up, and be the wise elder statesman we've needed for so long.
‘The problem with Cruz is that he is, when you get right down to it, still a politician. He may be conservative, but he’s a still a politician, and his first instinct is still to play the Washington game. He still has half a snout in the trough of donor money.’
Judging by the latest fundraising exertions, it could be more than half a snout. Some of those Heidi appeals were OTT.