Taht’s the standard liberal trick of conflating the legitimate with the illegitimate, like talking about “immigrants” as if legal ones and illegal ones are the same thing.
You’re right that eminent domain is necessary for interstate highways (or in an earlier time, “post roads”, as the Constitution explicitly provides), airports, schools, and that sort of project. The border wall that both Trump and Cruz promise to build for national security would seem to fall under that definition.
But eminent domain is supposed to be for “public” uses, such as those listed above. I don’t much like it, but for those kinds of projects it’s necessary, and those whose property is taken are supposed to be “fairly” compensated (though people often differ on what’s fair compensation.)
But eminent domain is NOT supposed ot be used for private benefit — taking one person’s property to transfer ti to another private party — such as casinos, for example, or other private businesses. And that is where Trump is wrong. Nobody opposes eminent domain for proper uses (it’s in the Constitution, after all), but every candidate but Trump opposes the use of eminent domain for the benefit of private parties.
And THAT’S what Cruz is talking about. We can’t let Trump and his supporters get away with conflating those two things.
Yeah ‘Eminent Domain’ is the issue of our time. LOL
That is NOT what Cruz is talking about.
Like Jonathan Gruber, he is capitalizing on the utter embarrassing ignorance (in certain areas) of the American voters