Ted Cruz Has Taken Over the Texas GOP

Washington Post: “This year’s Republican primaries proved beyond doubt that in the Lone Star State, the tea party is now the mainstream of Republicanism. Indeed, the entire Texas GOP appears to have been made over in Cruz’s image.”

“Come January, barring a massive shift in the state’s political winds, candidates who ran by his playbook will hold just about every statewide office. And all of the dozen or so that Cruz endorsed or said nice things about will have won.”

The Week: “To outsiders — and many Republican insiders — the Tea Party looks insanely fratricidal. But there is a method to the right’s madness. The real question is how often their method pays off.”