Ted Cruz is a snake, always has been a snake, always will be a snake. He has never done anything that wasn't designed toward the advancement of Ted Cruz.

He's not a stupid snake, though. After being booed off the convention stage in 2016, he figured out real fast that in order to keep his own presidential hopes alive for the long term, he had to make peace with MAGA supporters and pretend to be on Trump's side. Which he did very effectively over four years of empty, red-meat-throwing Senate kabuki.

In the end, though, Trump winning in 2020 was a bar to Ted's own ambitions. It set back his calendar for the highest likelihood of winning the presidency himself by years. So he put up a pretty good front of pretending to fight the election fraud while still accomplishing absolutely nothing, which has been his M.O. for his entire Senate career. (Boy, did Ted own Dorsey and Zuckerberg in those Big Tech hearings that resulted in less than zero action, eh? Didn't he sound just great?!)

It was little risk to Ted to offer to argue the Texas case in front of SCOTUS, or to put forward a half-hearted, suspiciously-convoluted 10-day plan for challenging the electors in Congress when he knew perfectly well what the Court was going to do and what Pence was going to do. Remember how long it took to get him on board with challenging the electors? Don't you think a guy as well-versed in parliamentary tactics as he is, and who believed so strongly in the strength of the Texas case that he was willing to argue it before the Court himself, would have committed to the electoral challenge the day after SCOTUS took a pass on the case?

Theater. Ted's in all of this up to his eyeballs right along with the rest of them. He'll probably have his 2024 PAC up and running by the weekend. It's long past time we stopped falling for his bullshit.