It is perhaps fitting that it is during this gloomy half-springtime we’re enjoying here in the Commonwealth (God save it!) that I checked out Time's list of the 100 Most Influential People—which I read every year, but usually for laughs—and I found the three saddest words I ever read in English.

By Ted Cruz

And he wrote this, of the man who slandered his wife, accused his father of being in league with John F. Kennedy’s assassins, and repeatedly called him “Lyin’ Ted” while mocking Cruz’s religious faith.

The same cultural safe spaces that blinkered coastal elites to candidate Trump’s popularity have rendered them blind to President Trump’s achievements on behalf of ordinary Americans. While pundits obsessed over tweets, he worked with Congress to cut taxes for struggling families. While wealthy celebrities announced that they would flee the country, he fought to bring back jobs and industries to our shores. While talking heads predicted Armageddon, President Trump’s strong stand against North Korea put Kim Jong Un back on his heels. President Trump is doing what he was elected to do: disrupt the status quo. That scares the heck out of those who have controlled Washington for decades, but for millions of Americans, their confusion is great fun to watch.

Remember this? I do.

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Who knew “sniveling coward” was a career plan? By all means, send Beto O’Rourke some money so Ted Cruz can devote himself full-time to the task of building a human soul out of the ashes of his previous one.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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