The Poodle’s Last Stand: Greg Abbott’s Grotesque Genuflection to Trump

How Texas’s governor became a case study in political castration — and why his democracy-destroying antics should terrify us all

By Josh Powell

UPI

Let me tell you about the most exquisite political humiliation I’ve witnessed since Rudy Giuliani’s hair dye meltdown. Picture it: Greg Abbott, the rolling strongman of Texas, reduced to a quivering lapdog by a single phone call from his orange overlord. It’s political theater so pathetic that even Shakespeare would have deemed it too on-the-nose.

In July 2025, Abbott, playing hard to get like some coquettish debutante, was initially reluctant to pursue Trump’s redistricting scam. The governor knew his own congressional delegation was balking at the idea — these seasoned politicians could smell electoral suicide from a mile away. But then came the call. The master’s voice. And faster than you could say “constitutional crisis,” Abbott folded like a cheap suit in a thunderstorm.

The sheer absurdity of it all! Here’s a man who’s spent years crafting this macho Texas tough-guy persona, only to be transformed into Trump’s most obsequious servant by nothing more than a presid…