Why are Texas Republicans “so terrible”? Why do they abet tyranny and persecute the vulnerable? That was the subject of a January episode of the podcast Conservative Review, hosted by Daniel Horowitz of Blaze News. Horowitz is no bleeding-heart liberal: this criticism was coming from the right. The state GOP, Horowitz said, had left Texans defenseless against “trannies” and the “Fourth Reich executive branch” of Governor Greg Abbott, whose jackbooted state agencies were oppressing Texans in unprecedented ways.Such discourse is increasingly common on the right. But Horowitz had a guest to give expert testimony: Matt Rinaldi, the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. Rinaldi laughed at Horowitz’s question and for a half hour gave his diagnoses of why the party he runs had gone…
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