The Machiavellian Brilliance of Ted Cruz

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The Machiavellian Brilliance of Ted Cruz

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | January 6th, 2016 at 04:00 AM

 

Throughout the course of Ted Cruz’s brief Senate career, he made a name for himself primarily by mounting losing campaigns. In so doing, he built up an enormous cache of goodwill with a growing bloc of disaffected Republican voters. Now, to the consternation of the many enemies he made along the way, Ted Cruz is cashing in that goodwill during the course of running the most ruthlessly effective Presidential campaign we have seen in at least a generation.

 

Ted Cruz’s introduction to America at large was during the course of a shutdown over Obamacare that he was primarily responsible for causing, and which ultimately did not succeed in getting Obamacare repealed. His GOP Senate colleagues were less than amused at his tactics, and thus began the process of Ted Cruz endearing himself to Republican voters at the expense of Republican Senators.

 

Over the course of the years he repeatedly engaged in procedural tricks that were often described as too cute by half and that seldom (if ever) succeeded at accomplishing Cruz’s stated objective.