Campaign season seems to begin earlier and earlier every time it comes around, but this time it’s starting up almost two years before? Well, in many ways it began in 2008 and has continued almost nonstop since.
Ted Cruz has announced his candidacy.
I have two reactions to this. The first is, perhaps predictably, “You have to be kidding.” But the other is an unpleasant chill running through my entire nervous system. I have come finally to embrace the maxim “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” There are and will be fervent supporters for this demagogue and over the last couple of decades it has disturbed me how such thoughtless, anti-intellectual, entrenched ideologues seem to creep ever closer to the White House. …