Who Is Dustin Burrows? Even by Texas Standards, He’s a Lawless Bully

It’s the all-too-familiar premise that authority exists to dominate the
opposition, and the law means whatever the leader says.

In any event, Democrats, who already scored a resounding
public relations victory when they fled the state, leaving Texas Republicans
feckless and tilting at windmills, have once again secured the upper
public relations hand. Collier, pictured camped out on House chairs like a
delinquent child at the overbearing command of the Republican speaker, is the
kind of image that resonates.

Burrows has blundered badly. The law is against him, as will become
apparent; and his officious overreach is likely to harm him in the national
public eye. Instead of the domination he seeks, he is likely
to go down as a lawless, thin-skinned, vindictive bully, like the president he
emulates.