"Why do people take such an instant dislike to Ted Cruz?

[saltpoint]

58. Rafael is one of those people who know

some things but not enough of those things to represent the truth.

A lot of fundies go to "Bible study" groups organized through their churches. The lessons from Scripture are picked in advance and tend to reinforce the heavy rightwing bias of the church community as a whole. Rafael conducts himself the way pastors of such churches do -- he's at the top of the heap under which all this rightwing "Bible study" is going on. It's propaganda, of course, and not actual study, since actual study would involve critical thinking, and fundies flat-out don't do critical thinking.

It creates a dangerous imbalance. Ted Cruz seems to be a human version of that whole system. Trump is loud-mouthed and bigoted, but Cruz is quiet, bigoted, and darkly mercurial.

Frightening bunch, the Cruz clan.