behind their backs. I predict a great Shakespearean tragedy about to commence

There's this movie playing in my head:

Little 5-year-old Ted Cruz enters kindergarten. On the first day he marches into the principal's office and demands more cookies or he'll burn the school down. Then he meets the principal who was at my school when I started kindergarten. . .

(I posted this yesterday, but it fits nicely with your OP.)

and you get that by earning it through putting in your time and energy raising money for your fellow party members.
I'll bet egotistical greedy Ted isn't razing any cash for his comrades either so that's another reason for them to cut him loose.

had a reasonable coherent thought in that glob of grey matter he seems to call a brain.

It may be a way to differentiate himself from the R contenders.

Tagged his motive.

Never much cared for that "you should show deference to your betters" mindset.