This morning, the headlines will no doubt be about Donald Trump's latest pronouncements during his speech last night at the Republican National Convention.
But the world shouldn't move on too quickly from the night before, when Ted Cruz dissed "the Donald" onstage at the GOP convention. Trump apparently never dreamed that Cruz wouldn't fall in line with the rest of the Republican lemmings who called him horrible just a few months ago, but now would quietly allow Americans to vote for Trump in November.
Not Ted Cruz. Not the fellow who never forgets a slight, but is always ready to use one to begin - four years early - his 2020 campaign.
"Vote your conscience," Cruz said onstage Wednesday. And notably, he never even came close to saying anything that was an endorsement of Trump.
The convention hall immediately buzzed with boos and jeers.
"I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father," Cruz explained to his home-state Texas delegation on Thursday morning.
"And what does it say when you stand up and say 'vote your conscience,' and rabid supporters of our nominee begin screaming, 'What a horrible thing to say!' If the nominee cannot meet that threshold," Cruz said, "we are not going to win and don't deserve to win."
What would our world be without politicians behaving like middle-school boys?
But to Cruz's credit, at least he had the courage - some would say brashness - to take his message to the stage.
What about so many other Republicans who see the folly of Donald Trump, and said so, but are dismissing the nominee from afar? Ohio Gov. John Kasich has not attended the convention that his own state is hosting, and has said he will not endorse Trump.
Gov. Jeb Bush is not there and won't be voting for Trump (or Clinton). Also not supporting Trump are former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsay Graham and former Republican nominee Mitt Romney said they are not endorsing Trump either.
Even this list doesn't include the lukewarm endorsements Trump has gotten with caveats like the one before the convention from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who suggested Trump was not yet a "credible candidate," even as he called Hillary Clinton "an intelligent and capable person."
There seems to be a pattern here - just as there seems to be a pattern at the convention itself - as the hall each night has begun to empty before the meetings adjourned.
All in all - but for the jolts created by Cruz's snub, Melania Trump's borrowed speech and supporter Ben Carson's "Lucifer" moment - the first three days of the convention dissolved into nondescript vignettes from no-one-you've-ever-heard-of and chants for Hillary Clinton to be locked up.
There were no new ideas, no new solutions.
But there was plenty of disorganization, and plenty of chaos. Jeb Bush got it right when he called Donald Trump the "chaos candidate."