So I’ve been looking for an answer to this question and I can’t seem to find anything in the general reporting.
Presumably this fascist order allowing the governor and the attorney general of Texas to place political opponents into law enforcement custody for practicing civil resistance will expire after the vote is taken tomorrow morning. I don’t know this for a fact but it’s my presumption. Even if this is true what is to prevent Abbott or Paxton from simply establishing this as a general order as long as MAGA is in control of the State House and the state of Texas? Democratic politicians in Texas have now acquiesced to law enforcement monitoring of their movements though they have not committed a crime. How does this not become the new normal moving forward? If this works in Texas how does it not spread to other states? If Democrats left the state once to prevent a quorum what’s to say that they won’t do so again in the very near future?
This may be flirting with hyperbole here, but the Gestapo in Nazi Germany was used to enforce ideological conformity among German politicians and the populace at large. It seems a very small leap to go from this to that.
“This is what the voters of Texas want! Who are Democrats to thwart the will of Texas voters?!”
Am I reading too much into this?