As I have written several times, when Ted Cruz started to approach the Establishment, it was all over for his credibility. He was supposed to be an anti-Establishment guy. Why would he join with them? He can't run against them and for them at the same time.
He had to join them though, once he started to tangle with Trump. If he had stayed out of the wife's war, he could have spared himself the personal war with Trump. Trump tends to win his fights. It would have been better for Cruz to have avoided a fight with Trump in the first place. He did that initially, and profited from it. He might have rode that strategy all the way to the nomination. Whether or not it was the wife's war that caused him to change, there was a definite change in strategy from hands off Trump to personal warfare with him. That was a critical mistake that he might have avoided.
A better way to campaign for Senator Cruz would have been to run against the Establishment and as an alternative to Trump without tangling with Trump in any direct sense. Once he did fight with Trump, he was cooked as far as this campaign is concerned.
Cruz is still young. Yet he behaves like this is his last campaign. Unless he knows something we don't, that prospect seems quite premature. He could be around for a long time.
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