Texas GOP cancels one of its own over gun safety, same-sex marriage | Opinion
FILE - Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas. Gonzales was censured Saturday, March 4, 2023, in a rare move by his state party over votes that included supporting new gun safety laws after the Uvalde school shooting in his district.The Republican Party in Texas demonstrated again this past weekend that it prefers to operate in a private echo chamber instead of an inclusive big tent. And that’s not a recipe for a conservative governing coalition.to censure U.S. Rep.
Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush built the modern GOP around conservative governing, not ideological litmus tests to cancel independence. The party’s transformation in the past decade has forced moderate Republicans to retire or endure extreme partisan competition in party primaries. Gonzales is hardly the first target of the state Republican Party’s increasingly extreme political apparatus.
Governing requires growing support from the middle out, adding and multiplying support instead of dividing and subtracting from the ranks. Nationwide and in Texas, the GOP should be
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