One of the least-appreciated aspects of Beto O'Rourke's overperformance/Cruz's underperformance in TX-SEN last night: the entire GOP bench of judges was wiped off the map wholesale in Dallas and Houston. The legal topography of the state just changed overnight.
It gets worse than that. Due to straight-ticket voting option (gone next cycle), Harris County (Houston)'s long-serving well-liked GOP executive was defeated by a 27-year-old who has only sporadically lived in the county and has never held an actual job.
Ed Emmett was a guy a lot of people would have liked to see run for governor of Texas someday. Now he's a casualty of people clicking the 'straight ticket' option and voting for Betomania.
It is hard to overemphasize just how wildly unqualified the never-employed grad student who won the Harris County Executive job is for what is about to hit her.
I love the partisans in my responses citing Donald Trump to me as a counterattack, as if I didn't oppose his election and think he is anything but a disaster as President. God, some of you people expect everyone to be as mindlessly hackish as you.
