Voting "red" is pretty meaningless if they're voting for either the "do everything the left wants but with companies instead of the government" politicians or the "elect me so I can do nothing" politicians.

At this point I want "use the government to punish my enemies and preserve our way of life" politicians. Come up with whatever excuse you need to throw school administrators and public health officials in prison. CEOs too if they force vaccine and mask mandates on employees. I'd even look past you being a little corrupt if you did it.

I don't see much to suggest that Texas "gets it". Let's see what happens when all the lawsuits against vaccine mandates fail and their abortion laws are overturned: will they have the will to do what the left does and enforce the laws anyways?