Not only Cruz but some of his Never Trump supporters have the same mind set.
A son of one our younger relatives, lucked out and played with 3 championship Little League baseball teams and was a key player with a great batting average over 400. He and everybody on that team worked and practiced regularily, often when the managers couldn't..
His last team was a group of Cruz's fans. They thought that they could win without the skills and desire to win. They won the first two games and lost every game after those two wins. They never improved their skills and often had mercy endings of games because they were so far behind.
The younger relative's batting average never got above 200, and he never really worked at maintaining and improving his skills. His loser team mates did the same. They showed up for games with low energy and zero skills and got their butts kicked.
Yet, every loser on that team got a participation trophy. Our younger relative seemed happy until his older sister said, "Seriously, you are not going to put a loser trophy on the rack with your real winner trophies."
He pulled his name of the participation trophy and sold it in a neighborhood garage sale. He got $10 for it. Someone bought it for their son, who never won anything.
Great story, Dave.