Move over, Lord Voldemort. Ted Cruz has taken your place as the man so evil he must not be named . . . Today's Morning Joe featured a strange trope in which Cruz was unmistakably being referred to by various members of the panel, but, at least in the first hour, never mentioned by name. Instead, Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Willie Geist variously alluded to Cruz as "one Republican senator specifically" or as one of "a couple of Republican senators" or "certain members of the Senate." Why the aversion to calling Ted Cruz by name? Were the Morning Joers...
