From telling grandparents they should be willing to risk dying from COVID-19 to keep the economy healthy to offering a $1 million bounty to bolster Donald Trump’s phony claims of a stolen election, Patrick regularly displays an appetite for over-the-top rhetoric. And the Republican state leader and former right-wing talk radio jock has certainly ratcheted up the spectacle to new heights as he wages a one-man war to shut down Texas’ growing, and largely unregulated, hemp industry.
