Texas, it’s time to elect Democrats to do right by all of us. Craven GOP politicians have hitched their wagon to the craziest people in the state, all the while taking money from the pockets of ordinary Texans & making rich people richer. #AbbottTax
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“At the Texas GOP convention over the weekend, the party declared war on LGBTQ Americans, the democratic process, and even members like John Cornyn and Dan Crenshaw who slightly strayed from the party line.
“Texas Republicans over the weekend wove a tapestry of extremism.
“At its Houston convention Saturday, the state GOP put forth a party platform that calls to ‘abolish abortion,’ attacks homosexuality as an ‘abnormal lifestyle choice,’ and formally rejects Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
“It also rebukes Republican senators—including Texas conservative John Cornyn, who was booed as he spoke at the event — who took part in gun reform negotiations with Democrats in the wake of last month’s Uvalde elementary school massacre.
“It is a thoroughly radical doctrine, the kind that previous incarnations of the party might have softened up a bit, if for no other reason than to avoid turning off voters not already part of the base.
“But the party outright dismissed an effort by some of its delegates to do just that, underscoring not only how far to the right the GOP is continuing to move, but how brazen it has become in doing so.
“‘Donald Trump radicalized the party and accelerated the demands from the base,’ Brandon Rottinghaus, a political scientist at the University of Houston, told the Texas Tribune. ‘There simply aren’t limits now on what the base might ask for.’”
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