Washington Post: “Texas is showing us the future Republicans want. This isn’t intended to mean that Republicans want a future beset by the sort of power shortages that have crippled Texas, which have left millions without power in frigid temperatures and are being exacerbated by other dire conditions, such as water shortages. No doubt many Republicans expressing outrage at the failures producing this disaster – and calling for accountability and reform – are sincere in their intentions, though we’ll see how long those demands persist.”
“But it’s painfully obvious that in an important larger sense, many aspects of their reaction to the Texas calamity do indeed demonstrate the future they want. It’s a future in which the default response to large public problems will be to increasingly retreat from real policy debates into an alternate information universe, while doubling down on scorched earth distraction politics and counter-majoritarian tactics to insulate themselves from accountability.”