Posted on 09/19/2024 12:28:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An American flag hung on the side of a barn and a country song about a working man played at Warren’s Backyard, a music venue, where on a searing summer evening, the Hood County Republicans met for an open bar and a silent auction to kick off the campaign season.
A school board candidate rallied her supporters. A precinct chair held court at the front door next to a storied basketball coach. The county commissioner — a local hero since 2019 when he shot and killed a gunman who had stormed a church — wiped sweat from beneath a brimmed hat and nodded to the faithful. When talk turned to political enemies, it wasn’t about Democrats, who are scarce here, but of a far-right faction of fellow Republicans who have instigated a civil war within the party.
“I grew up with these people and they’re attacking me,” Robert Granger, the precinct chair, said of the ultraconservative wing of the party. “It’s getting worse. They want to break public education and go to school vouchers. It’s political grandstanding.” The self-described Reagan Republican added that local far-right meetings “felt like I was in a Pentecostal church. It’s Christian nationalism.”
The far-right movement in Hood County exemplifies the rancor and divisions that have reordered American politics and provoked a battle for the identity of the Republican Party. That fight in Congress plays out over immigration, reproductive rights and the war in Ukraine, but in Hood County, where Donald Trump won 81% of the vote in 2020, it veers into skirmishes over multimillion dollar school bonds, book banning and petty fights over septic tanks and overzealous constables. It is a seething tapestry of social media attacks, conspiracies, Bible quotes and name-calling under the...
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Considering the quality of education we are paying for today-—I am in favor of school vouchers.
Oh the horror!
You mean they want to allow parents to get back part of the money taken from them at gun point and decide how it should be used to educate their children?
The absolute fiend!
They must be.... well, I would support that, but for someone who LIKES the kiddy prison and Pedophiles (aka teachers) union I am sure it is something too terrible to be even thought about.
We’re not paying for education. We are paying to support rat party operatives.
And we’re paying for schools to indoctrinate children with Communism, sexual perversion and the desire to mutilate themselves, all the while teaching them almost nothing regarding reading, writing and arithmetic.
I hope the voters in this district see this article and vote accordingly.
Hey, hey, ho, ho, the Bush RINOs gotta’ go!
Los Angeles worried about Texas? Seems to me they got a big enough mess out there to worry about without trying to figure out and tell people in Texas what’s going on in Texas.
We want no part of what Los Angeles and California are. This is made up baloney.
BINGO!
Not to mention accurate HISTORY!
They wish.
We’re not paying for education. We are paying to support rat party indoctrination.
I’ll bet all these “rock-ribbed conservatives” who feel like the “far right” are ruining their party are also dead set against “Project 2025” and view it as extremist and divisive in the same way the Leftists do.
I became very curious about it and did more than 99% of the people who rail about how it is the second coming of “Mein Kampf”, I actually downloaded a copy and read about 500 pages into it.
My intention was to pull out the salient points and list them in a spreadsheet, but after reading and making notes on half the document, I found out I could not tease all those sections back out in any easy way, so I gave it up.
But what I found out in those 500 or so pages I read was that there is nothing wrong (from a conservative perspective) with that document. And, to the contrary, there was a lot to like about it. (I have since come to believe Conservatives who buy into this concept it is an evil document it are making the usual mistake of buying into the Leftist talking points, because few to none of them have actually read it.)
But one of the “evil” things I read was the recommendation to eliminate the Department of Education.
I'm surprised to hear that the GOP even has an identity to fight over.
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Texas is NOT California.
The Far right the author talks about is anything not connected to the Bush side of Texas politics.
There was a time when Bush carried a lot of weight, that is long gone. Because of the Globalists in his group.
When I was young, NOBODY was a Republican. That lasted 150 years. (I am 76, have never been a Democrat, my first ballot was cast for Richard Nixon.)
During that 150 years Texans were still like they are today about nationalism. (U.S. and Texas) They were almost all fiscal conservatives. They were sane people.
In Texas the 1960’s lefties were very few until long after the Vietnam War. Everyone was patriotic.
Civil rights movement in Texas was largely a non event. Certainly Anglo's and Tejanos were neighbors and intermarried from the beginning of the Republic of Texas.
Texas from the beginning had a “Leave me Alone and we will get along fine” attitude. It still does.
So a Globalist like Fleishman (the author) does not have a clue. He is smug and thinks because he traveled the world he is superior. He can stay in the smoldering ashes of Los Angeles and CA, when it collapses.
The Bush's are foreign to Texas. Although W Bush grew up in the oil patch. (I had relatives in Midland too.)
The Oilies in Midland and Odessa are not Globalists. The companies owning the oil production are mixed, many of the owners are Globalists. Many are NOT.
There is your divide of Texas
LOL I’m here in the Heart of Texas and there is no such Civil War.
This article is all made up Horseshit by wishful thinkers on the left who know Alred’s going to be crushed by Cruz.
Any time you see the phrase “FAR RIGHT” you are dealing with a leftist.
They are using the phrase as a weapon far right is equated with radical, extremist, unreasonable, dangerous, unpredictable…etc.
Roughy 50% of readers will decide that group labeled as such is not deserving of their thoughts or ideas time.
I knew it , searched up the author.
He just wrote a book about America under threat by evil skin heads, neonazis and I bet conservative Christian’s.
same old 💩the leftists authors have been using for decades. Never the REAL threats like Marxism and the deep state.
And rightfully so. Problem is, you're getting more of it every day. The invasion isn't limited to the illegals from the South:
The major metro areas are deteriorating quickly, and it didn't just start this year. The "MOST of the people moving here from California are CONSERVATIVES" lie is just that. Or at least they sure have a funny way of showing it.
Trump should win Texas by about 5 points; Cruz SHOULD win, but almost certainly by less than that. By 2028 though.....
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