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Texas Republican senatorial candidate Ken Paxton is a sleazy politician who abused his power for personal gain and only won the nomination because he promised to be President Donald Trump’s toady. He is far from the first or last of his kind, unfortunately.
Texas Democratic Party senatorial pick James Talarico, on the other hand, is almost certainly the first major candidate in American history to contend that God is “non-binary.” Talarico didn’t say that God transcends earthly classification or comprehension — he intentionally used the quack neologism to normalize the idea that a person can choose to align with neither “man” nor “woman.”
Color me skeptical that
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