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.