The Federalist founder and CEO Sean Davis clapped back at Sen. Ted Cruz after the Texas Republican suggested that the GOP cannot use the same legal avenues as Democrats to pursue their political opponents.

“I don’t agree with abusing law enforcement, whether for my team or the other team. I don’t want a ‘Republican’ or ‘Democrat’ Department of Justice & FBI. I want a Department of Justice & FBI that follows & enforces the law,” Cruz wrote on Twitter Thursday as he promoted the latest edition of his “Verdict” podcast.

And while that is how law enforcement is supposed to work under our constitutional system, Davis argued that Democrats have changed that dynamic and as such, Republicans must respond in kind or be trampled.

” I love Ted. He is a great smart guy. I think he has it wrong on this,” Davis told Fox News’ Rachel Campos, guest-hosting for “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “I think the thing that he and others should look at is the Cold War. How did the U.S. win the Cold War against the Evil Empire? They had nukes. We had nukes. We were worried about them nuking us.

“We used a policy called mutually assured destruction that said if you so much as even think about launching something against us we will nuke you and your entire country. If we all go down, so be it,” he added.

“It was that doctrine, that fear that was instilled in both sides that, ‘hey, we better watch it or we’re both to get nuked.’ It actually lead to something of a detente and then the eventual fall of the Soviet empire,” Davis continued.

“You’ve got to do the same thing here. You can’t tie your hands behind the back, let them punch you in the face and throw you in prison and say, ‘Well, you know, I could respond, but that would be icky and it wouldn’t make me feel good,'” he adeed.

“You are either interested in winning as a politician and putting points on the board, or you are a loser. And for too long, Republicans have been content to be losers. They are happy to beat the spread but don’t really want to win. And I think the time for that kind of stuff is over,” he said.

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