Yes, this analysis is very well written - congratulations.
Personally, I find it amusing to hear/read that, because I am willing to consider Trump in the face of the end of the Republic, I am, variously, a fool, an ignoramus, a faux conservative, an idol worshipper, a flip-flopper, an emotional, angry, non-thinker, et al.
What I am is an independent thinker who has been deceived and betrayed too many times by the Establishment; I am willing to consider that Trump might actually do something instead of nothing.
(I realize that the Terrible Twenty-Two care naught for such as I, but I do not at all fit their self-serving characterization [or should I say, character assassination] of “Trumpsters”: I have a documented IQ well into the so-called genius range, and am a lifelong conservative. I do not choose a candidate casually or unthinkingly.)
One would think a so-called conservative forum would be all-in for Cruz; so his showing here is remarkable and demonstrates that something entirely new is afoot.
The problem with people who are not as smart as others is that they are ill-equipped to recognize the additional IQ points in someone else, since if they could, they would be that smart themselves. So it's frustrating to hear the intellectual sneering from people who cannot see what is right in front of them. It's an unfamiliar type of candidate whose argot is from a different context, so their first response is to call him stupid because they can't understand someone whose intelligence and energies so far outstrip their own.
The smartest people I've ever known are those who have some idea how much they don't know. Those are the ones who don't denounce another's point of view, but rather ask for more information.
This is a long video, but I was so impressed with his depth of understanding in this testimony before the House of Representatives in 1991 to discuss the credit shortage then wrecking the housing market: