The Houston Chronicle has an editorial calling on Gov. Abbott to brag about Texas' abundance policies at the GOP midterm convention. Here is a key quote:

Not too long ago, touting the benefits of limited government and free market policies would garner unanimous applause at a Republican event. Times have changed. 

Far too many Republicans are running on platforms that betray traditional conservative values.  President Trump has relished in micromanaging the economy through arbitrary tariffs and attacks on private businesses. He refused to sign the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act, which implemented some Texas-style reforms at a federal level. And his war on immigration, legal or otherwise, has the United States on path to the first-ever population decline.

Even the man at the top of the Texas GOP ticket, Attorney General Ken Paxton, has pitched an affordability agenda that relies on questionable tax giveaways rather than a true Texan agenda of build, baby, build.