Writing opinion for the
Boston Globe, Niall Ferguson begins his column saying he cannot imagine a President Cruz, and ends it as follows:
Now, I am not saying Cruz is Lincoln. I am just saying that, on reflection, maybe I can imagine him as president of the United States.
To reach that conclusion, Ferguson notes several Cruz characteristics:
The point about men like Ted Cruz is not their unpopularity with their classmates; it is their popularity with everyone else.
Like Trump, Cruz saw the extent to which Republican voters were sick of their party establishment. The difference was that, unlike Trump, Cruz didn’t make it up as he went along. Trump was engaged in what is known on the New York comedy scene as “improv.” Nothing Cruz does is improv. He is always the master of his brief.
The man is a politics machine.
There is risk electing Cruz who genuinely is intelligent, but it's likely to turn out better than has the incumbent who merely poses as smart.
