Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke in the Texas Senate chamber after his swearing-in ceremony in early January 2015 as Greg Abbott, governor-elect at the time, listened.
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Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune
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A surprising number of political reputations would collapse without the benefit of our short attention spans and vulnerability to distraction.
President Donald Trump has shaped his understanding of our traits into performance art. He’s a master of changing subjects, replacing the crisis of the moment with something that yanks attention away and benefiting from our collective tendency to forget about what happened a year ago, or a week ago, or yesterday.