Not at all. I have been perusing many threads and have witnessed this phenomenon as have others. Your perspective regarding Ted Cruz may exclude you, and perhaps many others, from my original point. However, there are "some" and "others" where the shoe fits, as it were.
"But, his efforts are considered extreme."
To whom? The Obama regime? The Democrats and the Republican establishment? The totality of the Washington D.C. ruling class? The Media? I disagree. These are extreme times we are living in. I admire and give Ted Cruz a lot of credit for what he did regardless of his success or failures. All this despite my disagreements with some of his positions and actions.
America has experienced one ideologue as President and is loath to replace him with what some perceive as his polar opposite.
It's strange to me how someone advocating the return of this Republic to its constitutional moorings is considered just another "ideologue."
-—To whom? -—
the mainstream of conservatives that exists to the left of what might be considered extreme.