Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion The Texas Republican Party has gone off the deep end

Even before the release of an outrageous new platform, the party had become an embarrassment to itself.

Associate editor and columnist|
June 3, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
Workers remove a Texas state flag after an event for Gov. Greg Abbott in Corpus Christi on March 1. (Eric Gay/AP)
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Looking for something really hair-raising to read? Check out the 50-page platform that was just adopted by the Texas Republican Party.

The document, approved at the party’s biennial convention in late May, is not a serious policy road map. But it does reveal the id of a political party that has gone off the deep end.

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