Why are Texas Republicans Acting like Democrats?

Last December, I packed up my California home and headed to Texas. I was sick of living with a legislature that couldn’t do anything conservative or fiscally reasonable if our lives depended on it.

I wasn’t the only one who left searching for fiscal sanity.

In fact, so many other Californians have made the same decision that t-shirts, bumper stickers, and billboards in the Lone Star state warn, “Don’t California My Texas.” I took that as a humorous way of telling us California imports to leave our liberal values behind.

Turns out, Texans are doing a fine job liberalizing the state on their own.

As a newly-minted Texan, I was surprised that native born Texans supported Beto O’Rourke for Senate at a higher rate than California transplants. 

More recently, I was shocked to see the Texas legislature — with a supermajority of Republicans led by one-time conservative champions Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Gov. Greg Abbott — behaving pretty much like my old state’s legislature, which is controlled by a supermajority of Democrats. 

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