
If Ted Cruz has taught us anything, it is that you can become very successful and powerful by simply being an asshole. Consider a description of his behavior when he was a student at Princeton University:
“It was my distinct impression that Ted had nothing to learn from anyone else,” said Erik Leitch, who lived in Butler College with Cruz. Leitch said he remembers Cruz as someone who wanted to argue over anything or nothing, just for the exercise of arguing. “The only point of Ted talking to you was to convince you of the rightness of his views.” – Daily Beast interview with Cruz’s former classmates.
Like all good assholes, Ted Cruz has not changed. He remains self centered, selfish, and sees others only in terms of how he can use them for self promotion. You would never see Ted Cruz helping out in a soup kitchen. But you would see him in a debate club.


So as you listen to Cruz, imagine him as that asshole who strolled around the halls of his Princeton dormitory in his bathrobe getting in the faces of others for no other reason than to stroke his own ego.