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.