Friday night, former Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke was forced to admit what most observers of his campaign have known for months: it was time to admit defeat and drop out of the race.
But while Beto-mania might have seemed fleeting for most election-watchers, who saw O’Rourke’s star fall amost immediately upon South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg — a similarly coiffed, but younger and more appealingly midwestern version of O’Rourke — entered the race, the news that Beto-mania had collapsed under its own sad weight was disappointing to the candidate’s dozens of hardcore supporters.
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