Sure. But even in Texas, COVID denialist death culters are a minority of the voting population. Abbott’s policies on mask mandates and vaccinations are deeply unpopular with the general public, and part of my gripe with the walkout is that Democrats should have been back here in the state pounding him on it for the last month.
Anyway, this is just my bugbear. You’d think by now I’d just accept that Democrats in the Texas Legislature are useless. The future of the party (if it has one) probably lies with the city and county officials who have stood up to Abbott and told him to go pound sand on his COVID denialist bullshit, they’re going to do what’s best for their constituents.