Beto O’Rourke Completes Journey From Idol to Also-Ran

The reality was Beto O’Rourke’s star turn in his senate and presidential runs were almost entirely the creation of other people’s imaginations

Andrew Donaldson
Nov 2 · 7 min read
Photo by Luke Harold via Wikimedia Commons

“I think that’s the beauty of elections: You can’t hide from who you are,” Beto O’Rourke had told Vanity Fair in the now-infamous…

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Chronic misspeller. Mountaineer diaspora. Vet. Insufficiently partisan & inadequately credentialed; I write anyway @ordinarytimemag @arcdigi and maybe for you

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