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Ted Cruz

US Senator from Texas, 2013 to present

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A conservative former Texas solicitor general who champions tax cuts, gun rights and a hard line on immigration, China and Iran, and ran for president in 2016.

Ted Cruz sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly traditional on culture, strongly religious on religion and strongly free market on economy.

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Where Ted Cruz sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Ted Cruz

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People furthest from Ted Cruz

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19401%John Lennon British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 19801%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 20062%Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 19922%

Political views closest to Ted Cruz

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.99%Religious rightSeeks to shape law and politics by religious, often Christian, values.97%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…97%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…92%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.