The sTrumpet contingent doesn't realize that the Cruz decision is going to barely move the needle of support of us 9% Ultra-Conservatives who will not vote for a loud mouth NY liberal under any circumstance.
That is the difference.
If Donny marched them out on the Brooklyn Bridge and over the side, they'd follow.
Cruz supporters aren't lemmings.
We aren't all caught up in the JV pep-rally go-team-go emotional linkage they have with "their candidate", we aren't all out there buying up OLP jerseys and hats.
We are standing on principle, one person more or less doesn't change those principles. Our beliefs don't go away, and if someone drops the flag, another will pick it up and carry it onward. This fight, for us, is over principles, not persons, and those of us who defended Cruz because we felt deeply that he had been wronged, did so on principle.
A leader who embraces those principles will rise and we will continue.
We still won't back the one who denigrates those principles, no matter how many do or do not embrace him.
It just isn't the hive mind mentality, and as a result, it is alien to them.