For years Glenn Beck was a trusted voice in the conservative movement.
His books, his show, his website and all his appearances helped to galvanize conservatives distrustful of an ever-growing and overbearing government as an effective tool to produce real change.
However, over the past few years, Beck’s watched as the popular support he enjoyed has begun to decay.
While it can’t be assumed Beck is the least popular person on the right at the moment…as one of the first people on the right to enthusiastically hate on Trump he certainly isn’t the most well-regarded.
Part of Beck’s freefall is based on the fact he was infatuated with the idea of a Cruz presidency. As Cruz began to lose support in the last year Beck, feeling less secure about the political horse he was betting on, began to ramp up his support.
Eventually, it came to pass that Beck would try and paint a picture of a Trump presidency being nearly as dangerous as a Nazi occupation.
This earned him a fair share of haters, as many of them thought Beck had lost his mind and descended into his madness.
Even after Cruz dropped out, Beck continued to rail against Trump while waxing eloquently about Cruz’s many fine qualities.
However, after this weekend, Beck was dealt a death-blow as he learned Cruz had decided to honor his pledge to support the Republican nominee in the November elections.
Once Beck learned this he launched a tirade against Cruz, accusing him of being yet another dubious politician.
He captured the entire thing on YouTube.
Glenn Beck says he may have misjudged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
“For the very first time I heard Ted Cruz calculate,” Beck said about his interview with the Texas senator, where Cruz addressed his decision to endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to Business Insider.
“And when that happened, the whole thing fell apart for me. And it’s my fault. It’s my fault for believing men can actually be George Washington. It’s my fault.”Beck, who was a Cruz supporter before the senator ended his presidential bid, said he should have considered supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) instead.
“I should have said, ‘You know who can win? You know who can beat Hillary Clinton? Marco Rubio,'” Beck said.
“‘I may disagree with him on the Gang of Eight [immigration bill], but there’s about 80 percent that I do agree with him on, and he’s kind of a politician, but he’s a different kind of politician. He’s a Hispanic, he can win — let’s go for it.'”
Beck said that for Cruz to “become the politician is disappointing.”
“Really disappointing,” Beck said.
“He’s still a good man, he’s just a politician first.”
Cruz last week endorsed Trump for president, a stunning reversal after he refused for months to back the GOP nominee.
In a Facebook post he put up on Friday, he called Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton “unfit” to be president and said Trump was “the only thing standing in her way.”
Beck interviewed Cruz on Monday, asking him to explain his endorsement of a candidate he once called a “sociopathic liar.”
“What I said is this is a binary choice,” Cruz said during the interview.
“I wish it were not a binary choice. As you know, I tried very, very hard, as did you, to prevent it from being a binary choice between Hillary and Donald Trump.”
Beck said the interview frustrated him.
“The interview pissed me off,” he said. “That was so calculated that it was stunning to me.”
Last week, Beck said Cruz backing Trump was “profoundly sad.”
If you were to take a survey of people in the conservative movement there are an ever growing number of people who think Beck is just too far off the reservation at this point.
The worry his attempts to try and stay relevant are also extremely harmful to the conservative movement.
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