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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Stephen Neukam

Republican Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw takes aim at his own party’s “woke right” for stoking division

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Offering a scorching rebuke of what he called the “woke right,” U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, continued to distance himself from some firebrand conservatives, accusing them of helping to sow manufactured division in the party.

In an interview with The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin for The Texas Tribune Festival, the two-term congressman admonished “alt-right” politicians and their supporters for wanting “to wear a jersey and just scream at the other side.”

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