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? Figure out where that maximum-grift line is?
I felt that way about Mark Robinson, the candidate for NC governor in 2024.
“Let’s see, porn addicted? Acceptable, okay. Anti-trans? Win in our book! Nazi sympathizer? Yeesh, okay. We can work with that. Wife had an abortion? Well, we’ve all been there, haven’t we? Pro-slavery? Well, okay— wait, he’s black??? Gotta pull the plug.”
We’ll see how much more bullshit GOP voters will swallow for a white guy.
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.
Huh he’s a boundary test, probably not intentionally, probably he got the nomination because of some dumb internal Trump spite, but he’s a boundary test all the same.
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? Figure out where that maximum-grift line is?
I felt that way about Mark Robinson, the candidate for NC governor in 2024.
“Let’s see, porn addicted? Acceptable, okay. Anti-trans? Win in our book! Nazi sympathizer? Yeesh, okay. We can work with that. Wife had an abortion? Well, we’ve all been there, haven’t we? Pro-slavery? Well, okay— wait, he’s black??? Gotta pull the plug.”
We’ll see how much more bullshit GOP voters will swallow for a white guy.
Surely Trump has proven that there are no boundaries to depravity or corruption already. Conservatives only draw the line when it comes to gas prices.
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.
Huh he’s a boundary test, probably not intentionally, probably he got the nomination because of some dumb internal Trump spite, but he’s a boundary test all the same.