I won’t be coy about stating what I believe is the obvious, which is that I live in the heart of Trump Country but this heart is not beating in favor of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons.

All those demonstrations we are seeing across the country have been full of protesters in Texas. It makes me proud of the state I have called home for the past 42 years.

Texans have accepted the reality that it is wrong for hooded, masked, heavily armed thugs to arrest children, bully U.S. citizens and then seek to install prison camps holding thousands of undocumented U.S. residents in peaceful communities.

We want no part of that. Nor do we want to endorse the heavy hand Donald Trump is deploying to look for criminals who, by and large, do not even exist.

What I believe we are witnessing in Texas is the piece-by-piece dismantling of the coalition that Trump managed to cobble together to win two elections to the White House.

His insistence that ICE is behaving properly only lends fuel to the argument that his critics are building. I’m glad to see Texas playing a key part in that particular drama.