Texas Nazis. I hate Texas Nazis.

It's from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Highly recommended.

Is anyone else surprised that the Texas Republican Party is refusing to institute a ban on hanging out with Nazis?

Apparently they think that it is too difficult to distinguish between Nazis and run-of-the-mill Texas Republicans.

I understand how they could have problems making the distinction, sometimes I have problems making a distinction between Texas Republicans and Nazis, but at they should at least encourage candidates, who, after all, are supposed to be more informed on such things, to make an effort to avoid Swastikas and straight arm salutes.

Two months after a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, leaders of the Republican Party of Texas have voted against barring the party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers.

In a 32-29 vote on Saturday, members of the Texas GOP’s executive committee stripped a pro-Israel resolution of a clause that would have included the ban. In a separate move that stunned some members, roughly half of the board also tried to prevent a record of their vote from being kept.

Wanted to hide their votes?  Nothing to see here, move along.

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The proposed demands were significantly watered down ahead of the party’s quarterly meeting this weekend. [Of course it was] Rather than calling for a break from Defend Texas Liberty, the faction proposed general language that would have barred associations with individuals or groups “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial.”

But even that general statement was too much for the majority of the executive committee. In at-times tense debate on Saturday, members argued that words like “tolerate” or “antisemitism” were too vague or subjective. The ban, some argued, was akin to “Marxist” and “leftist” tactics, and would create guilt by association that could be problematic for the party, its leaders and candidates.

“It could put you on a slippery slope,” said committee member Dan Tully.

[Texas GOP Chairman Matt] Rinaldi abstained from voting on the ban, but briefly argued that antisemitism is not a serious problem on the right before questioning what it would mean to "tolerate" those who espouse it. "I don't see any antisemitic, pro-Nazi or Holocaust denial movement on the right that has any significant traction whatsoever," he said.

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“I just don’t understand how people who routinely refer to others as leftists, liberals, communists, socialists and RINOs (‘Republicans in Name Only’) don’t have the discernment to define what a Nazi is,” committee member Morgan Cisneros Graham told the Tribune after the vote.

I dunno, perhaps I overestimated the morality, or the intellect, or the integrity, or all three of the apparatchiks in the Texas GOP.

Can we give Texas back to Mexico?