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By Stephen Stromberg, The Washington Post · 

IOWA CITY - Ted Cruz is the Bernie Sanders of the Republican race, and Bernie Sanders the Ted Cruz of the Democratic race. No matter how you look at it, three delusions drive both candidates’ campaign narratives.

Delusion Number 1: We will transform the country, uniting it behind an expansive agenda that will move the nation’s politics sharply away from center. The country must see that it agrees with us and has all along.

“All across this country, millions of people rose up and became the Reagan revolution,” Cruz said to an overflowing...