Maybe Ted Cruz isn t really smart enough to know better
Ana Marie Cox, The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2021
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FILE Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 22, 2020. The Texas Republican was once the victim of President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud now he is perpetuating them.PETE MAROVICH, STR / NYT
There s a consistent theme in the chattering class s criticisms of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas: As a smart person, his part in instigating the insurrection at the Capitol is especially contemptible.
A Democratic Party official in Texas scolded, Shame on him. He knows better, he needs to step down. Julián Castro, a fellow Texan and a colleague of Cruz s in the also-ran presidential candidate club, observed, Ted Cruz is a highly intelligent guy . . . He knows what he s doing, and he knows that he s wrong. Even other conservatives feel that Cruz has subverted his own genius in the service of playing licks
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