[1Old Pro]

There is a very big difference between knowing full-well how to work with the “rules” and knowing what the VOTERS want. His recent campaign has been nothing but ignoring voters’ will over pandering to bureaucrat party insider delegates. Yeah, I know they were all ‘elected’ - by each other.

Exactly, ironically making Cruz an establishment politician.

[Gaffer]

He’s a very smart man. He learned exactly ‘how’ the establishment works and what it entails working within it.

Unfortunately, ‘learning’ and ‘defeating’ are two different things. Instead of working to destroy it, he opted to ‘work’ with it to use to his own ends.