Social media users ridiculed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after the grandstanding Republican fired off a press release Tuesday announcing that he’d launched an “undercover operation” to weed out “Leftist terror cells.”
In the release, the culture warrior AG bragged that he directed his staff to “utilize all applicable authorities” to infiltrate and dismantle antifa — a decentralized movement that aims to curb fascism — and other left-leaning organizations, which he claimed celebrate and aid in political violence.
“Corrupt ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” Paxton said in a statement. “The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead.”
Paxton continued pouring on the purple prose: “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming.”
Painting political opponents and minority groups as enemies of the state is both highly concerning and par for the course with Paxton, who’s repeatedly weaponized his office to fight in the culture war.
However, plenty of users of the social media platform X found something to laugh about in Paxton’s proclamation — namely, that loudly trumpeting the presence of an “undercover” operation gives its potential targets lots of time to go underground.
“Only someone as stupid as Ken Paxton can announce to the world that they are doing something undercover,” @Steve_Beans tweeted in response to the AG.
Plenty of others agreed.
“OMG! Just go ahead and tell them your entire plan,” @usfraorg fired back. “Good gawd man, what the hell are you doing?
“They’ll never see it coming (unless they read this tweet,” @Paul_provalone fired back.
Paxton’s latest political grandstanding comes as he faces an increasingly crowded race for the GOP nomination to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. To win the nom, Paxton will have to get past both incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt — and convince voters to overlook his long history of political scandals.
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