Did Ted Cruz not take any history courses at Princeton?
The Texas senator acts like, and even physically resembles, Sen. Joe McCarthy. The man most responsible for McCarthy's political assassination? Sen. Joe McCarthy, although the Republican Brutus coalition, through a vote of censure, delivered the coup de grâce. Now, both Cruz and Sen. McConnell's gang are well on their way to emulating McCarthy's last act.
Cruz is undoubtedly the smartest idiot on earth. As a Republican senator, one can defame one's partisan opponents, one can defame half the nation, one can even seek to undermine and destroy every tenet of responsible governance. In fact, as a Republican senator, all that is one's duty. But one must never repeatedly unnerve one's Republican colleagues.
That's a killer.
So it is written, but it seems as though Ted hasn't read it.