[lentulusgracchus]

Here is the quote from the article, quoting Ted Cruz:

Here's what Cruz said about the violent protests that forced Donald Trump to call of[f] a rally in Chicago Friday night (see video below):

"Any candidate is responsible for the culture of a campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord."

Cruz's blame-the-victim mentality is one more common to liberals. What the heck does "the culture of a campaign" have to do with a concerted effort by left-wingers to shut down a speaker?

I'll let someone else who's been dissecting the stools more closely tell us whether, as Ted charges, Donald Trump has been amping up his campaign by talking about knuckle sandwiches and what he'd like to do to this guy or that guy or that bunch of people who crashed one of his rallies to do Alinskyite guerrilla theater in Trump's venue.

Cruz has a whole thing about engaging by bringing the protesters to another level to see if they can beat you with their ideas (they can't -- sort of like penguins at an IPSC-sanctioned gun race or a WBA welterweight bout). Trump doesn't do that, he calls security like he would at the Trump Plaza, and the Alinskyites are primed for that.

That's what Cruz is talking about. (I might not want to do it his way myself .... )

But trust a New Jersey writer in a New Jersey publication to "misunderstand" Cruz right out of the primary race, by damning him to hell by association with the real malefactors of GOP politics.

[MNJohnnie]

Any candidate is responsible for the culture of a campaign. And there is right where Cruz is losing 10s of thousands of supporters today Cruz is making a “Yes but”, defense. Cruz is saying Yes what was done was wrong BUT it is justified because the victim... Anyone NOT welded at the hip to a candidate knows that is exactly what this is and will hold Cruz accountable There was such an opportunity here for Cruz and he totally blew it. Can you imagine what the result would of been if Cruz had come out and supported Trump and soundly castigated the media and the rioters? If he had made a full throated defense of the Constitutional principals of Free Speech and Free Assembly? But instead he weaseled. Take a look around the web, you can lie to yourselves all you wish, you will see the truth Tuesday. Cruz made a major error here.