When former Trump Administration official Sebastian Gorka asked Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper for a “teachable moment” from the coronavirus shutdown, Horace noted:

One big takeaway is that our Constitution is intended, was created and designed, to endure and to cover all situations. There is not a COVID-19 exemption created – though some governors think so.

And Horace, who spent the Easter holiday with his family in Texas, could explain the differences he experienced in how Texas Governor Greg Abbott has handled the shutdown in contrast to other, more heavy-handed governors.

On Gorka’s “America First” podcast on the Salem Radio Network, Horace noted the Texas shutdown order “explicitly excepted the exercise of constitutional rights”:

So you haven’t seen any of the restrictions on firearm usage. You haven’t seen any restrictions on churches. Or even – what if people just wanted to exercise their right to protest? Under Governor Abbott’s order, those things are just as essential as our Founders intended them to be.