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Donald Trump loves the words<\/u> sleazebag and scumball, so much so that he\u2019s surrounded himself with the very definition of those two offensive terms. And it\u2019s hard to be more offensive than Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, unless you\u2019re Donald Trump<\/u>, of course.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump may regret endorsement after Texans send stinging message to White House in new poll<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night, Paxton, impeached, indicted, accused of bribery, and credibly alleged to have used the Texas Attorney General\u2019s office to benefit a donor who was simultaneously employing the woman he was having an affair with, won the Republican Senate primary<\/u> in Texas by a landslide.<\/p>\n

He is now the face of the Republican Party\u2019s 2026 midterm campaign. And if you want to understand just how far the GOP has fallen, just how morally and ethically hollowed out it has become, look at Ken Paxton<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Well, again, look at Trump first, because the GOP has now come full circle, putting up a guy who is as big a scumbag and sleazeball as Trump.<\/p>\n

This is a man whose career reads like a mafioso rap sheet.<\/p>\n

The scandal-plagued<\/u> career of Paxton reads like someone dared crime writer John Grisham to pen fiction about every possible form of corruption into a single Southern Gothic crime lord. Bribery. Abuse of office. An extramarital affair. A wealthy donor allegedly employing his mistress as a favor.<\/p>\n

That same donor allegedly bankrolled renovations on Paxton\u2019s home while Paxton\u2019s office did him favors in return. His own conservative staffers, Republicans, people who worked for him, were so alarmed<\/u> they went to the FBI. Not Democrats. Not liberal activists. His own people. Four of them later sued him, and Paxton ended up apologizing and cutting a $3.3 million<\/u> check.<\/p>\n

Did I mention he did that with taxpayer money to make it go away? Paxton\u2019s story reads less like a Grisham novel than a Stephen King horror tome.<\/p>\n

And still, somehow, there was more. The Republican-controlled Texas House, again, his own party, his own state, had seen enough. They drew up 20 articles<\/u> of impeachment and made him only the third officeholder in Texas\u2019 nearly 200-year history to be impeached. Twenty articles.<\/p>\n

The list of offenses was so long it needed its own table of contents<\/u>. If we\u2019re going to compare, I suppose Paxton\u2019s list was short, given that Trump\u2019s would entail volumes, like an encyclopedia set, if anyone knows what that is anymore.<\/p>\n

Just like if anyone in the GOP knows what moral and ethical values are.<\/p>\n

Paxton was ultimately acquitted by the Texas Senate, though that had absolutely nothing to do with his innocence and more to do with his chummy colleagues saving him.<\/p>\n

And after all of it, Donald Trump looked at this man and called him a \u201ctrue MAGA Warrior\u201d worthy of the United States Senate.<\/p>\n

This is what the bottom of the barrel looks like, and in light of slush funds, ballrooms, gas prices, the Iran war, Trump has now taken the GOP, and his \u201ctrue MAGA Warriors<\/u>,\u201d about as far down as you can go.<\/p>\n

The GOP has come full circle. The party that once screamed moral outrage about Bill Clinton<\/u> over a lie about an affair has now enthusiastically nominated a man whose corruption scandals make Clinton\u2019s look like \u2026 how do I put this \u2026 child\u2019s play, and no pun intended whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Read more Expert warns Trump policy is causing a wave of deaths via \u2018systemic breakdown\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The party that used to run on \u201ccharacter counts<\/u>\u201d has now made Paxton the poster child of the new GOP candidate. The Republican Party in 2026 has decided that corruption, scandal, and ethical rot aren\u2019t disqualifying. No, they\u2019re practically credentials to be included in campaign ads, because Paxton\u2019s scandals are the only thing he\u2019s ever accomplished in public office.<\/p>\n

Paxton isn\u2019t an aberration. He is a reflection. He mirrors Donald Trump almost perfectly: the indictments brushed aside as political persecution, the abuse of office recast as fighting the establishment, the personal moral failures ignored by a base that has decided winning is the only virtue that matters.<\/p>\n

The sanctimonious heathens that are Southern Christian conservatives view Paxton as a steadfast champion<\/u> of religious liberty, the pro-life movement, and traditional family values, which means anti-LGBTQ+. Like Trump, Christians give Paxton a pass.<\/p>\n

If you take this theory at face value, the only thing Paxton hasn\u2019t done is kill anyone \u2014 well, women in Texas<\/u> did die trying to get life-saving abortions, but then again, that\u2019s okay for the religious right, so he gets another pass. It never ends.<\/p>\n

Emulating Trump, Paxton watched all of this, took careful notes, and ran as a mini-me Trump in Texas and won. Why wouldn\u2019t he? The party and its base taught him that none of it matters.<\/p>\n

And \u2014 said with glee \u2014 Paxton\u2019s ascension is devastating for Republicans in the general election. While Trump won Texas by 14 points in 2024, Democrats believe they have a shot this year as his approval rating has dropped.<\/p>\n

They have a candidate in James Talarico, who raised $27 million<\/u> in the first quarter of 2026 alone, the largest-ever haul for a Senate candidate in any state in the first quarter of an election year.<\/p>\n

Prediction markets now show Democrats with a 47% chance<\/u> of winning the seat, up from 30% just a few months ago.<\/p>\n

But honestly, whether Talarico turns Texas blue should be the least of Republicans\u2019 concerns right now. Their bigger problem is that they just told every independent voter, every suburban woman, every soft Republican in the state of Texas that this is who they are.<\/p>\n

Good for them! They deserve to be swallowed-up by the blue tsunami coming.<\/p>\n

Ken Paxton is now a feature player in the GOP. He is what happens when a party follows Donald Trump and abandons every ethical standard imaginable. Paxton is the culmination of a decade-long race to the bottom.<\/p>\n

The GOP made its bed. Now it gets to lie in it, right next to Ken Paxton. And I think I should stop there because that\u2019s a dangerous and disgusting place to be.<\/p>\n

Read more This racist con is literally killing white Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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