Twitter exchange from Texas

New Blue USA is a progressive organization that is building a nationwide Political Action Committee to:

• Fight Donald Trump, his MAGA forces and all others who seek to terminate the freedoms guaranteed by this nation’s constitution.
• Build on recent Democratic Party successes at every level of the ballot.
• Unify, streamline and prioritize the efforts of progressive organizations seeking to election well-qualified candidates.
• Oppose those who embrace the rich and powerful elitist conservatives.

Founder Marty Taylor posted this today:

In 1984. Recent law school grad Greg Abbott was jogging in the affluent Houston, Texas suburb of River Oaks. When he jogged past Divorce attorney Roy Moore's home. A giant oak tree broke and tragically fell on Greg Abbott. Crushing his spine and leaving him paralyzed.
Uninsured and unemployed. Abbott had no health insurance. He had over $81,000 in hospital bills. He sued. Abbott got his hospital bills paid and received over $5.7 million dollars in payouts from Moore's home insurance and the tree services company who failed to detect the tree was rotten inside. Still to this day Greg Abbott gets a monthly check that includes cost of living increases each year.  And will  receive a check for the rest of his life.
When Abbott was on the Texas Supreme court . He voted to decrease the amount of money someone in a similar situation could receive. Gregg Abbott supported capping non medical damages in cases like his at $250,000. A reward like the multi million dollars in payouts Abbott received and still receives each and every month till the day he dies would be impossible today. Of course these bills were crafted to not be retroactive. So they do not affect Greg Abbotts payments.
Gregg Abbott does everything he can to hurt us Texans. While he laughs all the way to the bank every month with his very generous monthly check that he happily denies to another Texan who is injured in the same way as Abbott was. It goes without saying. This is another example of a GOP hypocrite. OK for me but not for any other Texan. That should be Gov. Greg Abbotts theme song for his life. What a despicable man who cares nothing about anyone's pain and suffering. He got his and to Abbot and the GOP. That's all that matters.

Reply:  Marty, I  have just read a previous tweet, and I  am interested in your background.  Being in the political world, what do you think has made people whom you felt as if you knew very well decide Trump was the answer?  I am so baffled by this, and people I thought I knew as well. 

Taylor: I have no idea. Like our dentist friend. He was from a Republican family but only became radicalized  by Donald Trump. I was raised in an affluent family that was Democratic on my dads side and Republican on my mothers. I was exposed to politics my whole life. We had two Governors of Tennessee and two Congressman in my family. Until Trump. We could disagree without being disagreeable. Those days are long gone. And that is very sad. Trump has made hatred of America and fellow Americans part of his brand.