Don Jr. issued an explanation. The left wing mob distorted his words, he was encouraging his fans to stop picking on Cruz in order to attack Democratic governors of states that aren’t Texas, because …socialism?
I think the traitor tot has a point. It’s the new Republican legal theory.
Post-election, a couple of voters were named as plaintiffs in an election lawsuit. They claimed they were injured because their absentee ballots were not counted by Republican election officials in a Republican county because they made mistakes and they were not notified and given an opportunity to cure those mistakes.
The judge was actually with them up until this point, agreeing that the right to vote is an important civil right and the plaintiffs indeed suffered an injury.
But then, the New Republican Legal Theory took the case into the surreal.
The plaintiffs did not sue the officials that caused the injury by failing to notify them of defects in their ballots.
Instead, they sued the Democratic officials in Democratic counties that allowed voters to fix defective ballots, under the theory that it was unfair of them to protect the civil rights of their residents if their own officials didn’t protect theirs. They argued that the fair remedy was to deprive everyone of their civil rights, since theirs were violated.
This reasoning, had it been accepted, could’ve turned civil rights litigation on its head. If a black suspect was hit in the head with a nightstick during an arrest, the civil rights remedy would not be centered on investigating and punishing the cops. Instead, someone would be tasked with finding every suspect arrested without incident and hitting them all in the head with a nightstick. Fairness! The Constitution!
I think that is where he is heading. The problem is not the Republican officials that didn’t care if the residents of their state had power and running water. The problem is the governors of the socialist states, states that feel obliged to maintain and regulate the infrastructure that provides electricity and running water to their taxpayers. Their residents were, for the most part, warm and hydrated during the storm. Which was totally unfair to the freeze-dried residents of Texas.
By acting competently. Democratic governors deprived the residents of Texas of their civil rights, their right for other people not to get something you don’t have. Because it’s like elementary school and gum, you don’t get to have gum unless you brought enough for everyone.
So the Democratic governors egregiously violated the civil rights of Texans by governing competently. Republican math has grown-up and given birth to Republican legal theory. Fairness! The Constitution!