Texas Is the New Republican Template

The Portland City Council will vote this week on an emergency resolution to bar city purchases of goods and services from Texas until the state overturns its draconian assault on abortion rights. Officials in the Oregon city are hoping the boycott spreads. “We urge other leaders and elected bodies around the nation to join us in condemning the actions of the Texas state government,” says Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.

Undoubtedly, Wheeler will get takers. But don’t imagine that Republicans in Texas, or nationally, will abandon the course they have charted. What’s happening in Texas is about much more than the fight over reproductive rights.

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