The 5 Reasons Senator Ted Cruz Should Reconsider His Stance on Tofu and Hair Dye

Texas is the land of big skies and big controversy. Controversies first: There’s the state’s notoriously crippling conservative agenda and the anti-abortion stance so severe that the state has seen a 29 percent decrease in women’s health clinics since 2011. There’s the state’s love of loose gun laws and a widespread fear and loathing of left-leaning liberals. But there’s also those big, big skies…the cacti. Marfa. The barbecue sauce. It’s the birthplace of Whole Foods and SXSW. How can a state be so many things good and not-so-good?

Despite all Texas has to offer, angry politicians keep Texas as prickly as its thorny succulents. Senator Ted Cruz, whom some expect will lose his re-election bid because he’s both unlikable and possessed with a vitriolic disdain toward the state’s increasingly liberal population, recently summed up his concern in a campaign speech, calling liberals dangerous.

“The extreme left, they’re angry, they’re energized and they hate the president. And I got to tell you, that’s dangerous,” Cruz said. “That level of fury and rage, we underestimate that at our peril.”

His comments are geared in large part toward his Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke, whose video supporting Colin Kaepernick’s right to kneel recently went viral. And they…