versus everyone else. so i take your point about this being reprehensible. it also to me doesn't square with the supposed conservative pin of small government, of trusting local elected officials to decide what is in the best interests of their communities, to say nothing about going against a free-market idea, the fact that you have him taking on restaurants that want to have mask mandates, it doesn't square. >> look, what it reflects is not only a campaign against vaccinations and coronavirus restrictions on conservative media that have radicalized a part of the electorate, but the reflects the culture war against cities, the places that are defying the mask mandates are cities in texas, which tend to be more liberal than the rest of texas, even though texas is a conservative state. so in some ways, he's seeing it