Texas Two-Step
The Texas senator tried and failed to go MAGA. Now he’s trying to reclaim his independence
In the book of Job, it was written that the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. So, too, it could be said of Donald Trump, the wannabe-messiah of the conservative movement and the greatest power broker the party has ever known. In Texas, for instance, Trump hath taken away a Senate seat from the incumbent John Cornyn and awarded it by way of primary endorsement to the state’s sin-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton. But unlike Job, Cornyn has clearly decided he does not want to suffer in silence and devotion to his vengeful deity.
In other words, the humiliated, punished senator from Texas is trying to grow a spine.
“The president seems to revel in chaos, which is so different from any other leader that I’ve ever seen. I don’t know about you, but I like to minimize the chaos in my life,” Cornyn said in a lengthy interview with Semafor. “He just seems to revel in it.”
