,… we practically beg voters to cross over to keep worthwhile officeholders. Too often, the good are flushed out with the bad. Source
Anyone who is running as a Republican, aka MAGA, is not good. How could anyone who supports Trump’s racism and bigotry be good? We need to flush them all out until they develop spines that let them say that Trump is wrong. Democrats may not be much better, but they are not condoning what Trump is doing and staying silent, well, some like John Whitmire are.
Below is a fairly recent headline from the Houston Chronicle:
Loyalty to Trump, Abbott and Paxton prevailed over sanity in Texas GOP primary (Editorial)
Rule of law loses to rule of Trump
Here’s a fun quiz for the hundreds of thousands of Republican voters who ousted three incumbent judges on Texas’ highest criminal court in Tuesday’s primary: describe what this court does in one sentence.
We bet most couldn’t tell you that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the court of last resort for all criminal cases, a powerful body that often deals, literally, with matters of life or death, including reviewing every case that results in a death penalty.
But we bet plenty of these voters could tell you exactly what the ousted Republicans on the court failed to do: show absolute loyalty to Attorney General Ken Paxton.
And they’d be right. Justices Sharon Keller, Barbara Hervey and Michelle Slaughter showed absolute loyalty to the Texas Constitution, instead, thinking, correctly, that it’s what members of an independent judiciary are sworn to do. But the Republican Party has changed. Following the rule of law isn’t a virtue anymore when the law is in conflict with the desires of a powerful politician who has the backing of the Almighty Donald Trump.
The argument could be made that the judicial candidates who lost were good Republicans. Why take a chance if their allegiance is to the Constitution of the United States or to Donald Trump or Ken Paxton of the MAGA Party?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/trump-vance-miller-ice.html?smid=url-share