George F. Will: ‘Texodus’ bodes badly for Republicans

(Eric Gay | AP file photo) Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, right, poses for photos at the Texas A&M-San Antonio on Oct. 23, 2019. Hurd announced on Aug. 1, 2019, he will not seek reelection in 2020. (AP Photo/) Washington • “I am a classically trained engineer,” says Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, “and I firmly believe in regression to the mean.” Applying a concept from statistics to the randomness of today’s politics is problematic. In any case, Hurd, 42, is not waiting for the regression of our politics from the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum to something like temperate normality. He is leaving Congress at the end of this, his third term. And he sees portents that his blinkered party would be prudent to notice.

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