From me to my wife who had a meeting with our county GOP chairman. She refused to show him my texts because this particular meeting was in her professional capacity as a state employee. Backstory - this guy used to have a portrait of Obama on his desk. In 2013 we sit down to dinner with our wives and he tells me his plan to go into politics as a Republican. I ask for his views on an assortment of subjects - all of which sit squarely in the democratic platform. I tell him, bluntly, that he sounds like a black democrat who realizes he can't get anywhere in Texas politics without changing teams. He disagrees, saying how disillusioned he is with the Dems and that their policies are perpetuating the black underclass. Keep in mind this was well before MAGA was mainstream. Fast forward 12 years and he is the GOP county chair and on the school board. I mean hey, mission accomplished. He acquired political power. Sadly, his wife passed from cancer, leaving him as single dad to 3 young children. I've got blood family in elected local judicial posts so I choose my fights, but lately I’ve gotten a lot louder.