The only implacable reality is that you can't answer a cogent question about your candidate's narcissistic fixation with risking the future of both his party and his country on the nothingburger that is his candidacy, and his irrational desire to artificially and illegitimately dominate a process at which he has failed miserably.
As I suspected, there simply is no satisfactory response to my challenge.
Ted Cruz's best case scenario (winning the GOP nomination at a contested convention at which he arrives with no more than 700 or so delegates) sees him:
That, and nothing conceivably more, is all that Ted Cruz and his fanboys aspire to...
Vote Trump