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Why Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton Are Like Trump Cover Bands
If you want to understand what’s happened to the GOP, don’t think about politics. Think Beatlemania.
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Nobody expected the mob of bands that followed the Beatles’ early success would replicate the lads’ triumphs just because they wore their hair long, sported the same suits and drew on the same musical influences. And they didn’t. The imitators wrote hits, filled theaters and even caused young girls to scream, but Beatlemania almost a mass delusion, a form of ecstatic consciousness provoked just by the toss of a mop-topped head, or an arrival on an airport tarmac remained highly specific to the actual Beatles.
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