The sanctuary city playbook is spreading in red states

I live in a community that, not long ago, was a quiet town outside Austin — one of many places people fled in search of safety, order, and a better quality of life. Today, that same community is rapidly transforming into the very version of Austin many residents hoped to escape.

Growth isn’t the problem. Ideology is.

My community is changing, not because it is growing, but because it is abandoning the principles that once made it worth building a life here.

A dangerous idea has taken hold in America: that enforcing the law is immoral, that accountability is cruelty, and that penalizing criminal behavior matters less than protecting the feelings of those who violate the law.

This worldview didn’t emerge organically. Institutions taught it, activists repeated it, and