Ted throws it in:

Thirteen months after launching his campaign for president on the promise of being the purest conservative in the contest before a large and exuberant crowd, Ted Cruz ended it abruptly Tuesday night in a cavernous room here in front of a small group of downtrodden supporters. Acknowledging that he had no path forward against Donald Trump, the Texas senator suspended his bid in the state he had hoped would keep him afloat until a contested Republican convention, where his strong relationships with party activists would help him claim the nomination.

There are three lessons in Ted’s rise and fall. One, you must always fight liberals, the more aggressively the better. Ted rose to prominence because he fought liberals the hardest of all the candidates prior to Donald’s entry. Donald won because he was the most effective at demeaning and humiliating the leftists once he got in, and he did it more publicly than any other candidate. As Donald made apparent, most conservatives like the boisterous rhetorical fight they see more than the intellectual fight of ideological philosophy, or any strategic fight revolving around legislation. When leftists began trying to destroy Trump’s rallies, he increasingly became “our man,” in the thick of the battle, in the minds of conservatives. From then on, when others attacked him, they began to be subconsciously linked in people’s minds to the leftists we hate, regardless of their issue positions.

Second, never take the left’s side. Even if your conservative opponent starts a fight wrongly with a liberal, you set aside your differences, hold loyalty with our side, and help your opponent grind the liberal into the ground. Most ideological conservatives are occupied with work and life, and thus are conservative more because they hate liberals, than because of some deep intellectual examination of the ideology. Ted suffered most when he tried to take the side of the leftist agitators who attacked Donald’s supporters. Every conservative, even Ted’s supporters like me, saw their opinion of him plummet in moments, because we liked Donald’s supporters, and hated the leftists and #blacklivesmatters assholes who attacked them. Suddenly, Ted was on our enemies’ side. That type of subconscious association sticks in the mind.

Third, don’t seriously attack a candidate whose supporters you want, especially as lines harden. Nobody who supported Cruz took Donald’s humorous “Lyin’ Ted” attacks seriously. But when Ted angrily called Donald a pathological liar, a narcissist, and a bully, Donald’s supporters took it seriously. One candidate solidified support against him, the other did not.

Finally, don’t try to demean the act of attacking leftists as bullying, even when it clearly is. Liberals don’t respond to logic, reason, or decency. There are only two ways to combat them, and stall the ascension of leftism. You can kill them violently en masse, in a bloody civil war, or you can bully and humiliate them publicly until they retreat from the debate. Donald is advancing conservatism and saving the country the only way it can be done peacefully when he bullies liberals. The only other alternative is the respectful and dignified method of George W Bush, which basically handed the nation to the left, and gave us Obama.

Bullying is good when it is done to oppressive assholes who won’t respond to logic, reason, or decency. It cows them, and prevents their despotism from rising to the point that they need to be killed to be free of them. It is an act of love. Leftists need bullying, and Donald has shown he is the man to do it.

The greatest service he has provided however, is giving a demonstration to future candidates on how to win by providing a real life example of why all the pacifistic beliefs of the GOP elites are completely and utterly wrong. Don’t be moderate, don’t be civil, and don’t back down, ever. Always attack, always face violence head on, and don’t compromise. Before this is over, Donald will have violated every tenet of the GOPe’s commonly held beliefs, and he will have thrived while doing so.

Given his success, only an idiot would deny that the best possible course for the GOP and its candidates in the future is to imitate Donald. He is singlehandedly making our future leaders more effective.