Texas Republicans want to secede? Good riddance.
Politics,Texas,LGBTQ Issues,Polarization,2020 Election,Republican Party
The Lone Star State does not have the best track record as a sovereign power. The Republic of Texas survived only 10 years from independence to annexation by the United States in 1845. Texas seceded during the Civil War β and, with the rest of the Confederacy, was crushed.
But, as the saying goes: If at first you donβt secede, try, try again. The Texas GOP now wants the state to vote on declaring independence.
And the United States should let Texas go! Better yet, letβs offer Texas a severance package that includes Oklahoma to sweeten secession β the Sooner the better.
Over the weekend, while many Americans were celebrating the 167th anniversary of Juneteenth (when Union Gen. Gordon Granger, in Galveston, Tex., delivered the order abolishing slavery) the Texas Republican Party voted on a platform declaring that federal laws it dislikes βshould be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.β
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