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ThurberMingus  ·  1025 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up

    The Texas Republican Party seems to be hoping that they'll be able to ride out a crisis of racism, greed and deaths-from-hypothermia, rather than planning a way out of a crisis of racism, greed and deaths-from-hypothermia

The plan all along was protect power with redistricting and then hope that enough minorities buy the 'fiscal conservatism protects you from paying for *them' blather to keep the demographic shift from wiping them out before the next round of redistricting.

I don't think they'll survive the demographics forever, but it won't be quick and I won't be surprised if the TX GOP still has power the next time we redistrict in 2030.