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I cannot hide my partisan leanings, so I won\u2019t even try to pretend I am so politically neutral that I don\u2019t care which political party wins control of policy making in my state.<\/p>\n

Truth is, I do care. I am tired of Republican Party vise-grip control of policy in Texas. I might not mind so much about whether the GOP maintains control of state government, except that today\u2019s Republican Party bears practically no resemblance to the party of the late former Gov. Bill Clements and the late U.S. Sen. John Tower.<\/p>\n

Clements and Tower personified what has been called \u201cestablishment Republicanism.\u201d These days, establishment GOP pols have become targets of epithets hurled at them by the MAGA crowd of cultists who adhere to the phony populism of Donald J. Trump. MAGA fanatics call these real Republicans, RINOs … Republicans in Name Only.<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton are three amigos in pushing forward the MAGA agenda that seeks ostensibly to \u201cmake America great again.\u2019<\/p>\n

Earth to MAGA cultists: The MAGA mantra means nothing to me. America is great. It has been a great nation for far longer than I arrived on this good Earth.<\/p>\n

The race for Texas governor is drawing a good bit of national attention. Democrat Beto O\u2019Rourke is making his second run for statewide office in the past four years. He came close to defeating Ted Cruz in the 2018 race for U.S. Senate. Then he ran for president in 2020 and flamed out. Now he\u2019s up once more \u2026 it might be his final run for statewide office.<\/p>\n

I want Beto O\u2019Rourke to defeat Gov. Abbott, who has been a terrible disappointment to me as the state\u2019s chief executive.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, I want to declare that my weariness of Republican Party dominance of public policy is no invitation for Democrats to veer too far off the mainstream middle ground that demands that many Texans are demanding to have their concerns heard, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to me that Republicans aren\u2019t listening to the vast middle ground. I consider myself to be a good-government progressive, which I believe requires plenty of compromise to find common ground.<\/p>\n

Thus, we have an election coming up that could swing the state significantly away from the nastiness we see too often from Republican political leaders. May it come true.<\/p>\n

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