At the risk of sounding like an old, boring, fuddy-duddy, let me say, as a precursor to this piece, that young people these days are idiots.

OK… they’re not all idiots. I’ve been quite pleased with the comport of some millennials.

Then, you have jackwagons like this kid.

At a campaign stop in Elkhart, Indiana for Senator Cruz, a young man felt it would be a hoot to ask Cruz to sign his copy of the Communist Manifesto.

Upon realizing what was being offered to him, Cruz recovered nicely and signed the book, but it was what he wrote that won the day.

A young man asked @SenTedCruz to sign a copy of the Communist Manifesto as a joke. Here's what Cruz wrote. pic.twitter.com/8VW5H2XHOb

— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) April 28, 2016

Well played, Senator.