A hate crime, like you said. I bet the arsonist(s) mumbled "Trump's new 'muricah" when they lit it up. There's plenty of them in south texas. I hope the Southern Poverty Law Center is on top of it.

While this family would not be involved in arson, they are one of the most ardent Trump supporting families I've ever seen, including having at least one member who flew from Victoria, Texas to attend the inauguration.

This was a hate crime and I hope the perpetrator(s) are swiftly brought to justice. I'll believe that when I see it, of course. My guess is that the whole town supports Trump and his ban.

(Multiple highways intersect through and around Victoria) and it is really politically, religiously "dumb" except for a few thousand good people. And they think they've got a great place to live with their crappy schools, funky smells in the morning from the plastics plant 15 miles to the east, extreme heat and humidity, and generally ugly city.

The family I know is all about "oil and gas". Could care less about anything that harms the environment.

Drop in oil and gas prices.

There was always a sense of privilege, I thought, with O&G people, like they were the only essential services. Texas now gets at least 20% of household energy from windfarms and other clean, renewable sources. O&G people will be rare antiquities eventually.

Let's hope so! We need to invest in clean energy, but Trump will set us back 50 years.

As you say, however, "eventually" it WILL happen.

Thank goodness no one was there. No kids were having a lock-in, no members were meeting wearly to plan a charity-related operation.