And while Texas does have an impressive economic growth record, some other states (California and NY) are actually growing faster [1]: The most trusted measure of economic strength says California is the world-beater among democracies. The state’s gross domestic product increased 21% during the past five years, dwarfing No. 2 New York (14%) and No. 3 Texas (12%), according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
I remember before Corona, we had record deficits and government spending. How is that an example of limited government?
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-14/califo...
On economic issues, people ascribe far too much blame or thanks to whoever happens to be president at the time. Whatever positive indicators you think pointed to a healthy economy in 2017 or whenever probably have nothing to do with the regime at the time; that was just the continuation of a decade of post-recession growth.
Anyway, where are you going to move to next now that Texas is slowly turning purple?
"Trump didn't screw it up" isn't as impressive a claim though, I suppose...