Walter Rhett: The Cruz Prototype

[DemocratsForProgress]

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Immediately, it’s easy to realize Ted Cruz is a national prototype that fits Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Allen West. The prototype loves to play dare, shames anyone who doesn’t adopt their ideological and self-righteous line, and except as space fantasies, the prototype has no plan for progress. Its working models are extortioners and exhorters. They are empty of compassion and confuse fantasy and ideas. They are media masters. They lie easily. They feign outrage.

They think they are gods.

They are not statesmen.

It is their marginality that makes possible the outsized impact of their singular acts.

We look at their views on issues like healthcare, but that is the wrong place to find their passion, which is a repeated faith in a self-directed belief in the importance of their own ideas. Cruz doesn’t care about healthcare, is no expert on the legislation. Cruz is having himself a grand time at the expense of the nation...

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