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The Ted Cruz effect: How one man destabilized the government - Salon.com
We've been watching the implosion of the GObP/pubs for some time now but it seems that Cruz just might be the one to pick up the pieces and use his power to do some very real damage the United States.
Late in August, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, traveled to a private residence in Dublin, N.H., to headline a fundraiser for the state Republican Party. Cruzs spiel lasted about an hour, and was packed with the mix of straw men and inflammatory nonsense weve come to expect out of the junior senator from Texas....
Moderate-extreme division isnt new, Karol explains. But people on the extreme are more extreme now than they were. There was a time when we werent going to shut down the government, impeach the president, that if you do anything with the president you werent radioactive. Now, doing anything collaborative, anything across the aisle, means youre suspect, courting a primary challenge. That atmosphere did not exist to the same degree.
We've been watching the implosion of the GObP/pubs for some time now but it seems that Cruz just might be the one to pick up the pieces and use his power to do some very real damage the United States.