Ted Cruz, Leninist

[mota bhai 2,675]

Suppose you thought that the Republican coalition is fracturing, that traditional Republican leadership can no longer hold the party together, and that the leadership is too willing to capitulate to its political opponents on the left.

Suppose you are also convinced that Obamacare will be a total disaster ... it will make most ordinary Americans deeply unhappy. Obamacare will be the big-government equivalent of crystal meth: an addictive substance that destroys your health. When the public finally realizes this, it will abandon the Democrats in droves and look for an alternative.

If you think both these things are true, then what Ted Cruz is doing makes some sense. Cruz wants to take over the Republican Party. He could try to organize the Tea Party as a third party, but that is a risky proposition, and it could easily fail.

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So the prudent move is to take over the existing GOP's operations and transform it in the image of the Tea Party, with the goal of becoming the dominant party once again ... He is deliberately fracturing the Republican Party so he can take hold of the largest piece of it.

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This brand of no-holds-barred conservatism is losing a few voters at the margins, but so what? Once these squishes are gone, the Tea Party can exert even greater control over the more ideologically pure remnant, which will be known as -- wait for it -- the Republican Party. Cruz plans to be the political leader of that party. Then, when Obamacare runs aground -- as Cruz and every other true believer knows it will -- the people will come begging for a savior. The savior will be none other than Ted Cruz, the man who literally stood up to Obamacare and made opposition to it his signature issue.

Clever, no?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/ted-cruz-leninist/280074/

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Thread title is not what it needs to be:

Ted Cruz, Leninist

Mods should uphold the rules they've set. Unless they have changed again.

[mota bhai 2,675]

Thread title is not what it needs to be:

Ted Cruz, Leninist

Mods should uphold the rules they've set. Unless they have changed again.

Don't be a douche. The title reflects the excerpt I chose to include.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Don't be a douche. The title reflects the excerpt I chose to include.

I like the article's headline much better.

[Ban Hammer 13,677]

Don't be a douche. The title reflects the excerpt I chose to include.

and you know better too.