“When Republicans failed to overturn the election results at the Supreme Court, Texas GOP Chair Allen West again threw Texas’ own political system into the national spotlight. West released a statement saying that, ‘Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution.’ West initially relished the resulting headlines including sharing one from the Washington Examiner that read, ‘Texas GOP floats secession,’ but soon after, West told Fox News, ‘I never said anything about secession.'”
“In his Monday Message newsletter West pinned an essay entitled ‘A More Perfect Union,’ in which he explained as clear as mud what he meant by his comments. What West says in a roundabout way is that he doesn’t want to secede, he just wants to boot out the Supreme Court and the states that voted for Biden. He blamed the misunderstanding of his position on, “progressive socialist left’s overtaking of our education system,” and indoctrination through ‘social studies.’ A simpler explanation could be that dog-whistling while ‘straight talking’ isn’t something Republicans can pull off in the age of Trump when everyone just says the quiet parts out loud. It’s hard to believe the same people who boycott professional sports over kneeling for the flag are the first ones to romanticize abandoning it altogether” – Texas Signal.