This is the Republican Party of Texas. It’s unlikely to get better even as it’s hard to see how it could get worse.
Matt Rinaldi, the state chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, speaks at the 2022 state convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Thursday, June 16, 2022., we were hit with a little spark of hope. This is, after all, one of the men who presided over the transformation of the state GOP from a normal, if deeply conservative, political party into a conspiracy-embracing, corruption-supporting mess that has mutated the meaning of conservatism in Texas.
Our hope lasted about a millisecond when we remembered that this is the Republican Party of Texas. Whenever we think it can’t get worse, it usually does.Look at the track record. Rinaldi, a flamethrower in the Texas House who lost his Dallas County seat in 2019, succeeded former Florida Congressman Allen West as state GOP chair. Once a tea party agitator, West regularly made headlines for incendiary comments that flirted with the far-right QAnon cult and the Texas secessionist movement.
Running to replace him is former Collin County GOP party chair Abraham George, a Paxton defender. The Texas Tribune reported Monday thatbased on a call that an armed George was going to confront a man he thought was having an affair with his wife. Also running is state GOP Vice Chair Dana Myers, who voted in favor of the ban on associating with known neo-Nazis. She’s got at least that going for her, though the party has set the bar so low you have to dig to find it.
As Paxton hints that he may take on U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in 2026, we can’t reconcile how it is that we’re talking about the same party. How can a Texas GOP that gave us a principled and competent leader like Cornyn elevate an unscrupulous and inept attorney general like Paxton to be its standard bearer?, as our colleague Gromer Jeffers Jr. reported. Traditional conservatives in Texas are losing heart. The party that once courted them and lifted them up has kicked them out of the house..
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