Arthur D. Hlavaty

Ted Cruz has decided that the best way for him to pick up the pieces after the Trump disaster and be the Republican nominee in 2020 is to endorse the disaster now. Unfortunately for him, he is still Ted Cruz, and enough people will notice. For instance, just as his nonendorsement at the convention was nothing more than urging people to vote their consciences (which was enough to get the deplorables booing), so his current endorsement is a passive-aggressive whine to the effect that “I promised that I would endorse the Party’s candidate even if they chose something you would be careful not to step in, so I am endorsing the candidate.”