.” The online headline: “‘
Contested, Heated Culture Wars’ Mark Ultraconservative Texas Session.” For good measure, the headline on the inside continuation of the story read, “With Emboldened G.O.P. At the Helm,
Texas Turns Even Further to the Right.”
Get the message yet? If those hostile labels sounded vaguely familiar, it’s because in the paranoid land of
Times reporters Texas has been hurtling to the right for over a decade. It’s surprising there’s anywhere left to go by now.
Edgar Sandoval, David Montgomery, and Manny Fernandez reported from Austin about recent Democratic shenanigans, trying to stop Republican vote-protection measures from passing the Texas Legislature: