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Ted Cruz Isn’t Stupid — He Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
With his tweet about the Paris Climate Agreement, Cruz shows Trump’s fiercest supporters that he will carry the legacy.
I’m sure by now you’ve all read Ted Cruz’s tweet complaining about Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement.
If not, here it is in all its stupid glory:
Everybody’s first reaction was to mock the Senator’s apparent ignorance of world affairs or his obvious hypocrisy, pretending to defend the interests of a city, Pittsburgh, whom he tried to disenfranchise two weeks ago. “How could he be so stupid?” is a question on many’s lips. People laughed at the blatant pandering to Trump’s “I love the uneducated” base, but there is more to this tweet than meets the eye. It is part of a series of tweets that, together, make up a clear message to the most violent of Trump’s supporters that Cruz will “continue the fight.”
First of all, Cruz isn’t stupid or ignorant. An Ivy League education is no definite proof of intelligence, but as an alumnus of Princeton and Harvard Law, Cruz has benefitted from an outstanding higher…
