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Texas Republicans Might Finally Lose. Will They Learn Anything?
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Had you tuned into a show hosted by the unusually long-lived conservative thinkfluencer Sean Hannity in the 1990s or 2000s, four or five versions of himself ago, there’s a very good chance you would have heard a nugget of faux history that had totemic value in the conservative movement until sometime last decade. Rome, the saying went, collapsed when its people realized they “vote themselves largesse from the public treasury,” exposing the fatal flaw of democratic governments: The great unwashed masses could elect to give themselves money. Because America was understood to be Rome 2.0, this was a chilling warning about the dangers of Social Security,…The post Texas Republicans Might Finally Lose. Will They Learn Anything? appeared first on Texas Monthly.