As my friend Shawn put it, “This is NPR, not the Onion.”

Thankfully there is a voice of sanity among Texas Republicans:

“Your letter pandering to idiots … has left me livid,” former State Rep. Todd Smith wrote Gov. Abbott. “I am horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to those who do.”