Texas GOP Flirts With Secession
David R. Brockman
... During an hour-long fight in the middle of the Friday platform vote, secession advocates tried to force back into the platform language that party leaders had dropped the previous night. “The federal government has impaired our right of local self-government,” the proposal claimed, setting up the potential for a statewide vote so that Texas could reassert its right to return to its original status as an independent nation ...
Abortion came up repeatedly on the pro-secession side. One speaker claimed that the federal government has buried “states’ rights at the bottom of a landfill” under “the bodies of murdered babies,” to vigorous applause. Another proponent cited the current anti-transgender bathroom battle: Washington, she said, will “allow pervert men into women’s bathrooms.”
She went on, to wild applause: “Who better to represent the will of Texas than Texas? I say secede now.”
But for all the secession advocates, there were just as many opponents. One speaker cited his years of military service and said he didn’t want to see the country he was proud to defend be broken up. Another asked the audience if they’d forgotten that just a little earlier they’d recited the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. Another speaker gave more practical arguments: If Texas Republicans say the state should secede, “it makes a joke of our principles,” he said. “Our goal is to restore the country,” he went on. “I’m an American first” — here he was interrupted by loud boos, so he shouted louder — “and I want to restore those <conservative> principles to the country” ...
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