switching parties old himself texas, 10 term senate republican ryan guillen, state rep, declared himself today from democrat he's now republican, the ideology of defending the police, destroying the oil and gas industry and opening the border has disastrous consequences for those of us who live in south texas. the third latino republican in the texas statehouse. the new york times noted this is a red wave among texas hispanics writing democrats shouldn't panic, they should go into shock. not all democrats are piling into the lifeboats, some liberals with very impressive degrees basically refuse to see us as a substantive problem. instead they've convinced themselves the entire democrat freefall is due to the public's faulty perception.