Ban some Texans from voting in primaries? Behind the Bo French fracas | Opinion
The Texas Republican Wrestling League has returned for another season, with populist outsiders grabbing wildly at the seasoned old pros while everybody imitates America’s Bruiser-In-Chief.
That is the best way to explain the events of recent days. A tag team of elected officials is retaliating against showoff Tarrant County party chairman Bo French, all for landing low blows.
Texas is a two-party state. But these days, it’s the MAGA Republican Party against the Even More MAGA Party.
Texas’ established MAGA Republicans passed school vouchers, strengthened the border, DOGEed the budget and did whatever President Donald Trump and estranged ally Elon Musk wanted.
But that wasn’t enough.
The Even More MAGA Party had to find something else to gripe about.
So now, eight months before a telltale party primary, the Even More MAGA Party is churning up opposition to incumbent Republicans over (1) property taxes, (2) LGBTQ anything and (3) Muslim Americans, foreigners, Californians or anybody who looks New Around Here.
French and his West Texas energy zillionaire backers dominate the local organized party structure. They want to trap Republican elected officials in a leglock hold.
Then they can declare some aren’t MAGA enough and bar them from the March ballot.
You think I’m kidding?
The state party organization is about to file a lawsuit to bar some Republicans from running for office, even if they’re already endorsed by President Donald Trump.
The same lawsuit would also let the party prevent independent Texans who don’t sign up first as Republicans from even casting a primary vote at all.
See?
French and his spiteful little club are at odds with elected officials, including many who have already been promised Trump’s endorsement.
They even want to overturn current Texas election law.
Is it any wonder that elected officials want to get rid of a showboating county chairman trolling America with viral shock posts on X.com?
![Tarrant County Republican Party chairman Bo French wrote on his X.com account on Aug. 12, 2024, “There are just some things where you can’t trust women TBH [”to be honest”].” He was replying to the Kamala Harris post, “Trust women. Trust them to make decisions about their own body, health care, and future.”](https://www.star-telegram.com/public/latest-news/6br5u6/picture292003620/alternates/FREE_1200/image_123650291%20(9).JPG "image_123650291 (9).JPG")
At @bofrenchtx, the Westover Hills Republican speaks Even More MAGA Party language.
He says 100 million people in America are “third world” invaders and “savages” who should be deported.
He calls his critics “retards.”
He writes that “there are just some things where you can’t trust women” and that men “do the hard work” in society.
French himself has conceded that it’s all for show.
In October, he told a Dallas political website: “I tweet 50 to 100 times a day. Sometimes my tweets are absurd to demonstrate absurdity.”
Sometimes they’re just absurd.
This story was originally published July 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM.
