Cruz spent four years shitting all over California and New York, effectively handing these states to Trump in the 2016 primary.
But that's also why he's such an entrenched incumbent as a Senator. Texas chuds love it even if they hate him personally: shitting on coastal elites forgives all.
You'd be looking at some early 20th century interpretations of leftism though, which is an important nuance. Lenin was a member of the Russian Social Democrats, but most people probably wouldn't attribute his legacy to Social Democracy.