[Maritime Q-Scout]

Change in the US will happen in one of two ways... both are up to Texas.

(1) Texas cedes from the union. The electoral votes and senate votes from Texas are gone and that's basically insurmountable for the GOP. They might get enough senate seats but the White House would no longer be an option. Things like education, where Texas supplies the books and thus controls curriculum across the nation would be gone. Oil lobby would be severely hurt, basically abolished. Texas no longer a part of the United States would be a big addition by substraction for the Democrats and anyone who doesn't make millions in year.

(2) People keep moving to big cities, which stay disporportionately Democrat to the point that the urban centres in Texas flip the state from Republican to Democrat. Texas is a lot more purple now than it has been in the last 70 years. Cruz won a tight race, the Governitoral race looks like it'll be close ... in Texas. This would be due to cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, etc getting bigger and bigger, with big cities being more liberal and thus more Democrat, it's a huge advantage for the Democrats. If that trend continues the GOP will be in a world of trouble.

Essentially the Republicans have to act NOW for to control the US and make their facist utopia. They played the long game for this very moment. It won't last based on demographic changes. They risked it all on the small states and Texas carrying them through. It worked. The gamble paid off. If they can't continue to rig the game and make the system even more undemocratic then they're going to fall hard. Keep in mind they aren't going to fall hard because of the brilliance of the Democrats, it'll be due to their scheme imploding.