Ya think? Maybe he was playing a deeper game and pointing out the dangers of dissing people. Cruz was wrong to lump NYers and Big NE urban values; that’s a way to divide people like the divider-in-chief. We need to pull together as a country not snipe at a broad group of people a subset of whom already share our goals and concerns. Look how quickly sniping backfired on Cruz. He opened the door. When you diss a group you no longer control the dialog.
LOL, yeah, I know, Trump is playing three-dimensional chess, and Sun-Tzu, or something.
As I said in my post and you’re ignoring, Cruz made it clear he was talking about NYC. So you can go ahead and pretend all of a sudden that we need to show solidarity with a bunch of pro-abortion, pro-queer, anti-gun liberals, but I’m not buying it.
Cruz simply screwed up here. Sure, it'll play well among conservatives. But the urban areas go Democrat, rural go conservative, and the key is the suburbs. Maybe more precisely, the key is the proverbial soccer moms. If someone can articulate conservative views without being scary or unnecessarily divisive, they can win those voters.
Cruz could have made the same point any number of different ways. He could have said "the values of New York City Democrats", or "New York City elites", or any number of phrases that didn't constitute a scatter gun against an entire state.