I didn’t say he defeated him “easily”. I said in 2012,2010,2008 it wouldn’t have been “as easy”.
Try this...
When I say, “Lead is softer than gold”, I am not actually saying that lead is soft.
When I say “cream cheese is harder than yogurt”, I am not saying that cream cheese is hard.
When I say he wouldn’t have been able to defeat Cantor “as easily” in 2012, 2010, 2008, etc... I am saying THAT HIS ELECTION DIDN’T TAKE PLACE IN A VACUUM AND THAT OTHER PEOPLE HELPED SET THE STAGE FOR HIM AND HIS ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THEM.
If you choose not to read the links I gave you which demonstrate what Cruz did over the 2 years prior to 2014 to rally conservatives against the leadership then I don’t know what else to tell you. You are willfully blind. The political atmosphere of 2014 was entirely different than the previous years and Ted Cruz had a hand in creating that environment whether you like it or not.
There was nothing easy about Brat’s defeat of Cantor. When you say, Cantor wouldn’t have been defeated “as easily,” it merely shows you don’t know the first thing about it.