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At the Texas Republican Convention in Houston this past summer, delegates booed U.S. senator John Cornyn. Congressman Dan Crenshaw was heckled by far-right activists as a “globalist RINO.” Governor Greg Abbott and Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan declined to address the convention, apparently fearing a similar reception. “The Republican Party of Texas is a grassroots party,” declared state party chair Matt Rinaldi in his opening remarks. “It doesn’t belong to me, or the governor, or senators, or congressmen, or any elected official.” But there was one elected official whom Rinaldi, along with many of his fellow speakers, was eager to celebrate. “Ron DeSantis in Florida [has] stood up and gone on offense against corporations like Disney who receive special favors from the government while taking harmful…

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