So she switched because she’s a bigot and got called out for it. She can’t reasonably say the Dem party has lost its way. All that she can say is that she never should have called herself a Dem in the first place.
The Democratic party didn’t always have the same attitude towards transgender issues that it does now, but Thierry has only been in office since 2017 so her views would have been old-fashioned for a Democrat (but maybe not a Texas Democrat) even then.
So she switched because she’s a bigot and got called out for it. She can’t reasonably say the Dem party has lost its way. All that she can say is that she never should have called herself a Dem in the first place.
The Democratic party didn’t always have the same attitude towards transgender issues that it does now, but Thierry has only been in office since 2017 so her views would have been old-fashioned for a Democrat (but maybe not a Texas Democrat) even then.