This is what passes for thinking among the GOP and right wing nut jobs (but I repeat myself).

There is only one non-negotiable GOP policy position —- tax cuts for the rich. Since having this as the only real plank in the party platform is unappealing, the GOP has fostered resentment and all kinds of bad craziness just as a distraction from the worthlessness of their only policy.

So now we have the spectacle of a sitting governor in TX indulging in these follies as opposed to calling out this conspiracy crap as the pin-headed shit that it is.

Abbott has no excuse for this pandering, and it grows ever harder to see how any civilized person can justify a vote for the GOP in any contested election.