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When Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached in May, many Texans posed an obvious question: Why were some Republicans finally turning on him? It’s a good question, but flip it and it becomes more instructive. Paxton would seem to be easily replaceable. Disposable, even. Why aren’t more Republicans turning on him? Paxton’s friends offer a clear (and clearly wrong) answer. They say he’s indispensable to the movement. Paxton is “one of the leading conservative voices not only in Texas, but also in the United States,” as his main lawyer in the impeachment trial, Tony Buzbee, put it in June. This sort of hyperbolic language has characterized defenses of Paxton since his early days as attorney general. In 2015, an agitprop shop affiliated with his backers, the…

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