1.) A power-hungry dimwit who suffers under the smug delusion that becoming
popular with a fringe movement loathed by the vast majority of
Americans is going to land him in the Oval Office one day.
2.) Another way of saying the Dunning-Kruger effect. As in, "the Ted Cruz effect", whereby someone who is utterly incompetent is so profoundly detached from
reality that they perceive themselves as being vastly more competent than they actually are, precisely because of how incompetent they are.
Ted Cruz: "Hi, I'm Ted Cruz! I'm running for president and I want to do away with Obamacare, the EPA, and basically all progress made over the last 60 years!"
Everyone else: "Wait... weren't you born in
Canada?"
Ted Cruz: "
Well... we'll let other
people sort that out!"
Everyone else: "Uh... No, we won't. You're a Tea Tard dumbass who wants to become president, and you can't legally become president in any case. You will never, ever, sit in the Oval Office."
Ted Cruz: "Well I think that those Confederate
flag-waving old white folks out there might say differently!"
Everyone else: "We're done here."