Ted Cruz, Leninist
Critics think the Tea Party senator is being self-defeating, but his antics make sense if he’s actually trying to remake the Republican Party in his image... After a long period of conservative dominance, he wants even more. He’s a bit like the political radicals in the 1960s and 1970s who made life miserable for centrist liberals like Hubert Humphrey and, later, Jimmy Carter, because they were quite certain that they could fashion a more ideologically pure Democratic Party that would lead America into a brighter future.