Guess it is time to way in from Fort Bend County:
Criticism about Abbott is fair.
I thought he jumped into the COVID lockdown a bit heavy in the beginning. His metric was the positivity rates, which didn't account for hospitalizations and fatalities, but he figured it out eventually. Maybe not as fast as some governors, but faster than most.
I thought he was a bit heavy handed in the beginning. Got the nickname "Governor Grab-it" for that.
The border is a bit more difficult to judge. It is the FedGov's responsibility to secure it. Do you recall when Arizona tried to pass a state law to strengthen their border security? The courts shot it down, citing that it is a Federal issue. Having said that, I am surprised that some of the measures he has taken to date have not been struck down by a federal court. If he goes too far, they might, but so far, they've let him send the Guard, build a few more miles of wall, etc.
I like the latest thing where he wants to bus them to D.C. My criticism there is that he should have been doing that a while ago, along with the other measures. That may get the courts attention, unfortunately.
The Grid failing was a disaster, no doubt. Lesson learned, and measures have been taken now. I guess we will know soon enough if they will work or not.
Several issue with that, not all of them the state governments fault, but they do share the blame. Might take a whole other post to spell that all out.
He is not as conservative as Huffiness and West, but a damn sight more than Beto will ever be.