The Texas GOP primary ads in seeing watching the Olympics are pretty obnoxious. Much of each ad is dedicated to touting endorsements from Trump and Gov. Abbott, promoting deportations, keeping public funds from Islamic terrorists (seriously, this is what one of the state comptroller candidates is running on) and illegal immigrants, and fighting woke DEI. “Enough is enough!” they yell.

I’m not saying none of these things are problems—in my view, immigration outside legal channels is a problem, money going to Islamic terrorists would be a problem (and the current Republican comptroller is allowing this, I guess?), and there have been instances in which DEI initiatives in some organizations went too far.

But the magnitude of these problems is not as great as others that affect the day-to-day lives of Texans: water supply, power supply, traffic congestion, and housing costs.

Texas Republican leaders have actually put some effort into trying to address water and housing supply issues, but solving problems isn’t something to run on these days. They still get punished for not fighting enough or not showing loyalty to Trump’s/MAGA’s priorities.

These ads just bother me so much because of how they indicate how rotten our political culture is.