Opinion | Republicans’ Texas nonsense shows us the future the GOP wants - The Washington Post

...It's a future in which the default response to large public problems will be to increasingly retreat from real policy debates into an alternate information universe, while doubling down on scorched-earth distraction politics and counter-majoritarian tactics to insulate themselves from accountability...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/texas-republicans-abbott-power-shortages/