![]() Dan Crenshaw, left, called for unity and an end to GOP infighting during the two-day event. Greg Abbott, right, responds to a question during the Crenshaw Youth Summit. Far-right media similarly have targeted Crenshaw, and he’s responded with denunciations of them as part of the “woke right.”įirst: Gov. Marjorie Taylor Greene - whom Crenshaw recently called an idiot - and other Trump allies. The two-term congressman was once a rising star in the Republican Party but increasingly has warred with figures such as Georgia Republican U.S. ![]() That, Rottinghaus said, has provided an opening for figures such as Crenshaw, a 38-year-old former Navy SEAL who is all but certain to win reelection in November. “I like to joke with my students that the current crop of Republican candidates put the ‘old’ in ‘Grand Old Party.’ They all look like the younger voters’ grandparents, and that’s not the best way to attract a younger audience.” “This is something that the GOP has struggled with for a long time,” said Brandon Rottinghaus, a University of Houston professor of political science and longtime observer of Southeast Texas politics. Printed literature distributed to attendees at the third annual Crenshaw Youth Summit Sunday harkens back to Reagan-era Republican politics. They fight for your fundraising dollars, they fight for your clicks, your likes, your views - knowing that America has been conditioned to be attentive to only drama.” “They say they fight for you, but the truth is they only fight for your attention. They are manufactured by opportunists online, on TV and on social media who can’t string a sentence together about serious public policy,” he said. The yearning for an earlier era was made clear by the Delorean that was parked next to the stage of the third annual Crenshaw Youth Summit at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Houston this weekend, at which Crenshaw called on a few hundred young conservatives to cease toxic party squabbles and unite to preserve the vision outlined by Reagan decades ago. Dan Crenshaw wants a new Reagan revolution - a return to the 1980s-era Republican Party pillars of small government, low taxes and less welfare that he says have been crowded out by infighting in recent years. ![]() ![]() Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. ![]()
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