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The list of things for which one might muster some respect for Senator Ted Cruz is short. On some level, I think he knows this. (He’s smart, right? Everyone insists he’s smart!) I think that’s why he often tries to scrape up some grudging goodwill by playing a good sport, like when he went along with the meme that he was the Zodiac Killer, or when he gamely offered his Simpsons impressions to BuzzFeed. He’s sat down for interviews with me three times! Back in the more-forgiving pre-Trump years, he went on Stephen Colbert’s show and Seth Meyers’s; he played basketball (after a fashion) with Jimmy Kimmel. And Monday, he went on the ABC talk show The View.You might think that daytime television would be a relatively gentle spot to promote a book, even if…

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