Michael Van Der Galien [1] has tried to understand why the Ted Cruz presidential candidacy announcement has set social media on its ear and advances a tentative theory. "But why are leftists' heads exploding as well? I've got no doubt I know the answer: they fear him. Tremendously even. He is everything they oppose: a true, small-government conservative."
If that were all Cruz were guilty of it wouldn't be half bad. It's far worse. His "Imagine" speech seemed calculated to ridicule every Leftist shibboleth with predictable effect. The Left lost no time characterizing him as a Christian bigot, a patriarchal supremacist, an uneducated, crazy, anti-poor, anti-abortion "uppity loudmouth" besides being that supreme abomination, a White Latino [2]. If there's some sacred cow in the Leftist canon Ted Cruz has left undefiled, he will soon enough defile it. That's the plan.
Cruz was intentionally provocative because he intends to make the Left itself the main issue. People of all shapes and sizes were rising to their feet, clapping their hands raw and shouting themselves hoarse not because they necessarily agree with his policy positions, but because he was sticking it to the Man. He was knocking Gessler's hat off the pole in the public square and the onlookers loved it. |