Washington Monthly How Texas Became a Right-Wing California Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / Share Share Link EmbedUntil about a decade ago, the Texas GOP epitomized traditional small-government conservatism. It liked to judge how well Texas was doing by how many Californians were moving to Texas. But the mechanism of this law is an innovation and it represents, again, a kind of change in how Texas Republicans think government is supposed to work. Anne Kim: Let’s turn to the third way in which Texas has embraced a California mechanism, if not necessarily in the same way that California has done, and that’s embracing Hollywood. But there is a possibility that there is kind of an invisible tipping point where the right-wing faction of the Republican Party goes too far.