Maybe; I always feel like with r/politics, the presence of anything in the last election cycle not attributable to Biden is there because of Trump. To me, this was massive to them in the context of 'blue wave' and all of the 'Texas is finally gonna go blue' rhetoric, especially because they wanted it only as a repudiation of Trump and his politics (and nothing to do with helping the people of Texas or even necessarily the broader idea of electoral manipulation).

Maybe that's too cynical of me though