There are three things to remember about Ted Cruz. First, he’s a committed and intense Reactionary, with a few CL ideas about economics thrown in to appeal to the Koch brothers. Second, he’s almost insanely ambitious. Finally, in the service of #1 and #2, his tactics are extremely flexible. One day he supports Trump; the next day he doesn’t. He’s used so many people in Congress for his own purposes that even his ostensible ideological allies don’t like him.
There is something about Cruz that just smells like death. There is a reason why I pitted him against Dracula in a previous post. It is easy to imagine him burning heretics in an earlier era.
That conveniently brings us to his historical twin–Philip II of Spain, who was described as “lugubrious” in a book I read over my vacation. “Lugubrious” is a perfect word for Cruz.