Everything’s Bigger in Texas—Including Excuses

Greg Abbott has spent years casting himself as a national model—a law-and-order leader, business magnet, and champion of liberty. But look closely, and every so-called success comes at a cost few Texans can afford.

He touts economic growth while manufacturing jobs disappear and wages stagnate. He praises school funding increases that come only after years of sabotage and ideological warfare over vouchers.

His border campaign drains billions from state coffers, burdening local governments while producing more headlines than results. Social services take the hit—hospitals close, prisons overflow, and communities are left to clean up the mess.

Meanwhile, civil liberties wither. Abbott’s war on abortion, books, and trans rights has turned Texas into a proving ground for surveillance-state conservatism. A proposed THC ban threatens veterans and cancer patients—not because of science, but because culture wars sell.

The cruelty is deliberate—and contagious. Chaos becomes the branding, and exhaustion becomes the strategy. Keep people tired enough, distracted enough, and they won’t fight back.

Even the infrastructure crumbles. The power grid failed once catastrophically and remains fragile. Summer heat and winter storms keep testing a system built for deregulated profit, not public safety.

Abbott governs like a man performing strength. But performance doesn’t keep the lights on, fund schools, or heal the sick. Texans deserve better than a photo-op administration.

They deserve leadership rooted in truth, not stagecraft.

Greg Abbott—Three-term Texas governor who has expanded executive power through aggressive culture-war policies, voting restrictions, and border militarization. A close Trump ally, Abbott has defunded public institutions to force political concessions, targeted trans youth and reproductive rights, and pushed laws reshaping education and civil liberties—all while courting corporate donors and national influence.