Trading Places

Republican orthodoxy is that criminal lunacy is better than a moderate Democrat. No wonder they're so determined to make voting so difficult. https://t.co/ifhBvMfNWq

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 20, 2023

People in Texas (indeed, most of the South), have been voting this way since Reconstruction. Until the 80’s, in Texas, anyway, the party you didn’t vote for was the GOP (although from about the mid-20th century on, Texas always had a GOP US Senator). The governorship was a sinecure for party apparatchiks earning their gold watch. Democratic Party apparatchiks, of course. The truest believers (like yours truly) were “yellow dog Democrats,” because we’d vote for a yellow dog, as long as he was on the Democratic ballot.

Sometime after W. defeated the Governor Miz Anne, that party loyalty flipped, more like a seesaw with one person left, than a switch, and Democrats and Republicans switched places. Not in a “Freaky Friday” way, but precisely trading places: the out party was in, the in party out.

Do you think people vote for Ted Cruz, Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick? “Anyone who runs on the Democratic side represents even worse." All I’m surprised by, is that anyone is ever surprised by that sentiment.

To be plain, if Trump was my only option, I just wouldn’t vote. I don’t think I could ever vote for a Republican. But that’s mostly because I can’t imagine a Democrat as bad as Trump.