I definitely feel the anger against the overall direction of D.C. and both parties, but I don’t really understand painting every single politician or incumbent with the same brush. I give Cruz inparticular credit for being elected to rebel against the establishment and then living up to his campaign promises (something that some proclaimed Tea Partiers like Rubio failed to do). I absolutely love that Dave Brat knocked out Eric Cantor. But I don’t think being a politician is automatically a negative if you’re one of the small minority who did the right thing while you were there. Eventually Trump himself could be a politician holding elected office and an incumbent in the next election. So I argue for judging them on an individual basis and keeping the good ones.
Again, you fail to appreciate the righteous anger of the voters against lying politicians and their big money donors.
Cruz is young. He can try again after he’s wizened up a bit, proved himself to be a leader and has a few accomplishments under his belt. Reagan didn’t make it the first time either.