4
Reasons Ted Cruz is Even More Dangerous than Donald Trump.
By
Robert Reich
See this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W5e7AwqksU
1. Cruz is
more fanatical. Sure,
Trump is a bully and bigot, but he doesn’t hew to any sharp ideological
line.
Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns.
He doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of Obamacare, and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution.
Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns.
He doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of Obamacare, and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution.
2. Cruz is a true believer. Trump has no firm principles except making money, getting attention, and gaining power. But Cruz has spent much of his life embracing radical right economic and political views.
3. Cruz is
more disciplined and strategic. Trump is all over the place, often
winging it, saying whatever pops into his mind. Cruz hews to a
clear script and a carefully crafted strategy. He plays the long game
(as he’s shown in Iowa).
4. Cruz is
a loner who’s willing to destroy government institutions to get his way. Trump has
spent his career using the federal government and making friends with big
shots. Not Cruz. He has repeatedly led Republicans toward fiscal
cliffs. In the Fall of 2013, his opposition to Obamacare led in a significant
way to the shutdown of the federal government.
Both
men would be disasters for America, but Ted Cruz would be the larger
disaster.
ROBERT
B. REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of
California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing
Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for
which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries
of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best
sellers “Aftershock, “The Work of Nations," and"Beyond Outrage,"
and, his most recent, "Saving Capitalism." He is also a founding
editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning
documentary, INEQUALITY FOR ALL.
