Again and again we heard it. Way way back in Harvard law school, people hated Ted Cruz, especially his professors. And yet all admitted that Cruz was f’ing brilliant. (He wasn’t smart enough to be born in Edmonton instead of Calgary. No offense to the Calgarians, but given the choice?). Cruz went on to clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who – at that point in his career, was doing more court administration than actual judging. Cruz did a lot of damage.

He went on to be Solicitor General of Texas, that’s a pretty tender age to be the state’s attorney before the state supreme court. And then of course, he eventually was elected to the United States Senate. Two themes ran seamlessly throughout, Ted was absurdly, almost rudely, brilliant, a genius, and the second, everyone hated him, everyone – even the people that vote for him hate him, they just love what he does.

But as we’ve said before, Ted’s reputation as a genius has taken a huge hit in the last year. A genuine emergency descended down upon Texas, people would die. Ted had an opportunity to go to a comfy warm (generator powered) command and control center in Houston, where he could say he was coordinating federal resources. Whether he did or did not do anything, he could say he did. (He could have even brought his family, saying he couldn’t stay home to help them). Relative to all Texans, Ted would be spoiled by political power. He and his family would be warm, have their devices, it’d be just like home. Cruz would look like a hero.

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Everyone knows the rest, he takes off for Cancun, leaving all those Texans behind, and then – amazingly, at every single turn in the aftermath, manages to make things worse, lying, justifying, leaving the dog, it just snowballed, so to speak.

It continues to this day. Cruz got himself trending on Twitter again for all the wrong reasons. The guy who left his entire state behind in a genuine emergency, came out and obliviously said:

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To be sure. Ted is right. We shouldn’t have left any Afghans behind, though we were of the impression that the United States airlifted out 122,000 Afghans who assisted us, that would seem to be a major effort at getting the majority out. There may be other ways, too. Regardless, one would think that such a brilliant person could put out the same message without just so obviously looking like a hypocritical asshole.

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Yes, he sucks at being a human being. He is showing a lot more of that “Why everyone hates him” stuff than “He is such a genius” stuff of late. Keep it up, Ted.

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