Cruz has made his alliance with the Bush crime syndicate already. Fat lot of good it will do him. Trump could avoid it, if he didn't have the little chihuahua nipping at his heels. That may force him to work with them. Hopefully not.
Anyway, point is, Reagan was able to take his case to the American people unfiltered after he was the nominee, and the people responded. They didn't buy the warmonger label, the Bedtime with Bonzo ridicule, the whacko label. They saw a pro-American, thoughtful leader at a time of American decline and extreme danger. Just like now.
Stop thinking in linear fashion and stop letting propagandists tell you what to think. You are better than that, Nathan.
As I said in my next preceding post, the people are beginning to catch on to this kill the messenger approach designed to divert attention from the gaping flaws in the politics and character of Donald Trump.
Here is a "propagandist" who makes very cogent arguments that the nomination of Donald Trump will lead only to disaster:
This Is Not 1980, And Donald Trump Is Not Ronald Reagan