Anyone else feel like Republicans dangle Paxton out there to see if they can figure out just how much disgusting behavior they can get away with?
Paxton’s part of a new wave of white nationalist Texas Republicans that have broken away from the old Bush coalition of the 90s. He represents a wedge between more traditional business-focused oil money ex-Dixiecrat conservatives and the Millennial-Era internet-poisoned fascist radicals that are taking over the party.
We’ll see how much more bullshit GOP voters will swallow for a white guy.
I mean, they’ve lost Karl fucking Rove. But it helps to remember that Rove worked for Pappa Bush, who was a liberal Republican from Connecticut before carpet bagging down to Houston in the 60s.
Modern Democrats are more than happy to let you turn a national park into an oil well, just so long as you remember to hire a few of their constituents and kick back a few bucks along the way. Modern Republicans want to deport 100 million people, because they saw someone unseasonably tan celebrating at a college football game.
But past that, voters will buy whatever bullshit being sold. It’s a two-party system, after all.
Paxton is being dangled as red meat for a new kind of GOP base. It’s not a question of what the voters will get away with. Paxton beat John Cornyn with this strategy. The base clearly prefers him. It’s more a question of how many GOP voters Texas will have left, once they’ve finished purging themselves of anyone who fails the Paper Bag Test.
Paxton’s part of a new wave of white nationalist Texas Republicans that have broken away from the old Bush coalition of the 90s. He represents a wedge between more traditional business-focused oil money ex-Dixiecrat conservatives and the Millennial-Era internet-poisoned fascist radicals that are taking over the party.
I mean, they’ve lost Karl fucking Rove. But it helps to remember that Rove worked for Pappa Bush, who was a liberal Republican from Connecticut before carpet bagging down to Houston in the 60s.
Modern Democrats are more than happy to let you turn a national park into an oil well, just so long as you remember to hire a few of their constituents and kick back a few bucks along the way. Modern Republicans want to deport 100 million people, because they saw someone unseasonably tan celebrating at a college football game.
But past that, voters will buy whatever bullshit being sold. It’s a two-party system, after all.
Paxton is being dangled as red meat for a new kind of GOP base. It’s not a question of what the voters will get away with. Paxton beat John Cornyn with this strategy. The base clearly prefers him. It’s more a question of how many GOP voters Texas will have left, once they’ve finished purging themselves of anyone who fails the Paper Bag Test.