Cruz accidentally gives away the game

[Monk06]

46. These sorts of things are not Republican mistakes they are bold faced lies. Or as Karl Rove put it

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

To put it another way, creating a strategic narrative is always preferred over telling the truth.

Truth is concrete and undeniable whereas narratives can be changed, even reversed instantaneously.

This allows Cruz to claim, in a completely candid and unselfconscious way, America's greatness at finding a vaccination for polio, while at the same time advocating the criminalization of the process that created the vaccine.

He's not stupid, ill informed or a liar. He's just controlling the narrative.