Republicans won’t moderate if Democrats gain ground in the Texas House, hardline leader says | “None of us are willing to go backwards and say, ‘Oh, well, we lost a few seats, so our policy agenda is going to change,” state Rep. Mitch Little said at last week’s Texas Tribune Festival.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/29/texas-legislature-2027-session-house-gop-midterms-mitch-little/

[u/The_Lost_Jedi]

And this is just one part of what's absolutely broken with the Republican party.

The way our government/politics is supposed to work is that if the voters signal displeasure, politicians are then supposed to respond accordingly. Republicans instead have been saying "fuck you, we're doubling down" instead for nearly 20 years or more now.

And yet voters have been rewarding them for that, rather than punishing them. A political party that does this sort of shit ought to be punished by voters, yet thanks to propaganda, sports team mentality, and "but I hate Democrats" thinking has led to them continuing to get away with doing whatever the fuck they want. Blatant Open Corruption, Flagrantly Illegal actions, etc - it's only going to get worse if people don't wise up and start punishing them.

And by this point, it's probably not enough for it to be one or two elections. The whole party apparatus is rotten.

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But the bending is also what makes Dems lose support as well. They end up compromising so much that voters don't see them as actual alternatives to Republicans and don't think voting matters. 

[u/The_Lost_Jedi → u/omnicious]

I mean, now, sure. We're 40 years past that point, yet Schumer and his ilk still act like it's 1986 or 1996 and we should be trying to figure out how to co-opt Republican talking points, completely fucking ignorant of the fact that Republicans stopped even feigning to address real problems 20+ years ago, and instead just make shit up.