A year ago Ted Cruz said Pussy Riot was being persecuted. Now he stands with BLM thugs & fem-nazis. Not sure he ever was all that conservative.
You have a point, the Pussy Riot comments are certainly damning against Cruz (although, to be fair, Trump criticizing Pamela Geller over Draw Muhammad Day is also pretty damning... thankfully, he has unapologetically and uncompromisingly been anti-Muslim since the Paris attacks).
It’s entirely possible that Cruz, from the beginning, had a plan B of betraying conservatives the instant it became clear he wasn’t going to get the presidency in 2016. The thing which makes Cruz especially stupid is that he would have almost certainly won the nomination in 2020 or 2024 if he didn’t completely shaft conservatives and instead graciously accepted that he will come in second.