and ceo of the federalist and he joins me now. sean, ted cruz, he s a smart guy. l sc he s a constitutional scholar. but is he missing the moment ? does he not get that they thet t democrats want d to destroy the republican party, that they want to consolidate totalay political power? yeah, i love ted. he s great.as smart guy. i think he s wrong on this. and i think that thing that he and others should look at is the cold war. the cold how did the u.s. win a war against an evil empire? they had nukes. we hadpire? nukes. we were worried about them nuking us. we used a policy called mutuallysed ly assured destruction m that said, if you so much as even think about launching somethinucasg against us, we will nuke you in your entire country. and if we all go and down, soo i be it. and it was that doctrine, that fear that was instillet. d in both sides that, hey, we better watch it or we re both going to get nuked. that h ge actually led to something h of a detente and then the eventual