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Serious question: Why did the musical Hamilton become a gigantic lib fave?

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Nounverb [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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The tickets were going for 10k a pop before Trump. The fued with Trump kept it going long after perhaps it should have died.

Black people get work LARPing as slaveowners and white people get to feel better about championing slaveowners. A latin guy gets some pop and a bunch of people make money. It’s the liberal wet dream of what they believe America should be.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netM
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The tickets were going for 10k a pop before Trump

Wait… WHAT? Broadway delenda est.

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Nounverb [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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Not for every performance, mind you, just that the frenzy around Hamilton had nothing to do with Trump-- it was only exacerbated by him as all things were in those times.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/hamilton-tickets-lin-manuel-miranda/

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