These posts are from SRIOTD, but they belong here as well:
Well, if “a new George Washington” is someone to plunge a great empire into internal war, cut off a sizeable chunk of its territory, and send a third of the population of that chunk into exile, all for the sake of his own speculative investments, yeah, Ted Cruz probably could be that guy. The question is, is there a corollary to the Kingdom of France to back him?