Maybe you heard it when Governor Greg Abbott critiqued local officials who enforced his pandemic executive orders. Or maybe it was when U.S. Senator John Cornyn said he would support a hypothetical vote on a Supreme Court nominee after spending 2016 blocking Merrick Garland. Perhaps it was over the past two legislative sessions as the Texas GOP discovered it actually didn’t like local control when the locals were turning blue.
I’m talking about the word “hypocrite.”
The accusation has become a go-to for Texas Democrats watching their Republican colleagues backtrack on stated values and positions the moment it becomes convenient.
