The Republican primary for United States Senator in Texas is a snapshot of the tension between the entrenched interests of the corporate branch of the Republican Party, and a younger, aggressive, and unabashedly MAGA-adjacent conservative wing. The corporate Republican party (GOPe) has been the only game in town for many years, and their complacency in the face of the progressive onslaught on traditional America has created the existential issues we face today.
John Cornyn is a star of GOPe policies and attitudes, and his bristling antipathy toward President Trump should be enough for the good voters of Texas to boot him to the curb.
The idea of collegiality within the Senate is an antiquated idea that is used as a tool by the Democrat Party to undermine the Republican majority, yet Cornyn stubbornly insists upon a world-view that simply does not exist. The acquisition of power is the only driving force behind Democrat behavior, but Cornyn pretends that the traditions of the Senate are still powerful. Whether he believes it is secondary to his tepid support for the President’s policies, and his embrace of some of the talking points of the progressive forces acting against the President.
“Insurrection?” No, Senator Cornyn. It wasn’t an insurrection, and nobody was charged with it, so stop parroting your buddies across the aisle. And the filibuster is a marvelous tool to protect Democrat interests and subvert the will of the American people with respect to voting in America, yet you support it?
Begone with you! And let us discard your supporters for good measure. You know, like conservative stalwart Hugh Hewitt! Or the fine, upstanding Senator Thune! Or the United States Chamber of Commerce!
Support for President Trump and his policies should be axiomatic for the Republicans in the United States Senate. That there is a group of senators who are actively antagonistic is an affront to the concept of a political party and the obvious idea that the president is the leader of the party. These effete and out of touch senators have an inflated sense of their own importance, and if the people of Texas slap down Cornyn today, it will be a powerful message to the others.
So…you Texans out there…vote early…vote often!
Grifter’s On the Potomac (GOP)
It’s amazing how detached the GOPe is from their supposed base.
Grifters On the Potomac… I’m stealing that! Thanks. The Republican party is obsolete and is soon to be extinct. As well as the Democrat party. Sooner or later the young conservatives will start a third party or take over one of the fringe parties and wear it like a skin suit. The old guard of both parties will fight it tooth and nail but it’ll happen. That which cannot continue, will not continue.
Have them at the state levels too. My favorite tweet of the night was from RINO Baseball Crank….Cornyn would be a 9-1 favorite to win in TX, Paxton only 2-1. Sad. Paxton is known all over TX and will win going away. In RED states, or RED districts, the GOP needs to run a RED representative. In Blue or purple districts, maybe run a RINO. But frankly, we saw states like Illinois get crushed by not running real conservatives….so maybe that doesn’t hold!