Fear and Loathing and Wallace and Cruz

Published April 6, 2016 6:05am ET



Sen. Ted Cruz, R.-Texas, watched returns from the Wisconsin primary election Tuesday night in Milwaukee’s Serb Hall, where he had received a standing ovation four days prior.

In one of those absurd historical mash-ups that is probably wildly unfair to Cruz, American Serb Memorial Hall also the same place where gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson dropped acid and covered George Wallace for the first time in 1972.

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