Steve Bayne to Cowboy Logic Restoring America Forum
What
kind of game is Ted Cruz playing? He's a sharp lawyer with a trick
that's hard to see. In particular, I think he is playing a trick on
evangelicals in Iowa and elsewhere. Ted Cruz's game is identity
politics, only it has a lawerly twist. (Thank you Harvard)
Ted Cruz's identity politics is not the politics of race, class or gender. Ted's found another niche: demographic identity. Ted Cruz doesn't like NY values. If he doesn't like NY values, what is he going to think about Chicago values; and, if he doesn't like Chicago values he sure won't like Detroit values; and if he doesn't like THOSE values how about LA values, or Philadelphia values, and the list could go on to include virtually every major urban center in America. He is using religion to create a divide, one that suggests he cannot lead all of America.
Ted Cruz's identity politics is not the politics of race, class or gender. Ted's found another niche: demographic identity. Ted Cruz doesn't like NY values. If he doesn't like NY values, what is he going to think about Chicago values; and, if he doesn't like Chicago values he sure won't like Detroit values; and if he doesn't like THOSE values how about LA values, or Philadelphia values, and the list could go on to include virtually every major urban center in America. He is using religion to create a divide, one that suggests he cannot lead all of America.
All people capable of moral thought have good and bad habits. Cruz
isn't talking about values; he's talking about ways of life. His
identity politics is drapped in religion. Christianity is not the only
religion to be drapped in the cloth of identity politics. Cruz is a
slick operator, but be not deceived. He is an "operator."
American culture has been largely, and most importantly, defined by New York (read: "urban") culture. New York City and other urban centers have sustained American culture since our inception. There is a price to be paid by those who drape themselves in the flag of religious opportunism. That price is disliking people and their ways of life which offend (Oh!) such Christian souls as Mr. Cruz.
Trump is authentic; Cruz is not. I say to my evangelical friends: "Don't be taken it; don't be used again." Don't like my man Trump? Maybe I can convince you; but if I can't, you will find more authenticity in any one of a number of other candidates: Carson, Rubio, Huckabee, etc. than you will find in Mr. Cruz and his identity politics!
American culture has been largely, and most importantly, defined by New York (read: "urban") culture. New York City and other urban centers have sustained American culture since our inception. There is a price to be paid by those who drape themselves in the flag of religious opportunism. That price is disliking people and their ways of life which offend (Oh!) such Christian souls as Mr. Cruz.
Trump is authentic; Cruz is not. I say to my evangelical friends: "Don't be taken it; don't be used again." Don't like my man Trump? Maybe I can convince you; but if I can't, you will find more authenticity in any one of a number of other candidates: Carson, Rubio, Huckabee, etc. than you will find in Mr. Cruz and his identity politics!
During
Thursday night’s debate, Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump acted out a
debate almost verbatim that they’ve been having across separate radio
interv ...
slate.com
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