If you only know Ted Cruz from the internet, you probably picture a meme. Between the impromptu trip to Cancun during a Texas winter storm, the endless late-night television mocker

Walk through certain neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, Michigan, or rural Florida, and you will still see them. Faded now, some with frayed brims or sweat stains darkening the crown.

When a state attorney general goes after people with money, fame, and political reach, two things happen at once. The public starts paying attention, and the office stops looking l