You need to make an argument beyond just observing that things went wrong and the market is deregulated. The real world is messy and there will always be emergencies and crisis. Just because an emergency happened somewhere that believes in laissez faire principles doesn't mean that those principles caused the problem.

On net, people would much rather move to Texas than away from Texas. The mobile people think it is better than the alternatives. The historic approach to policy by the Texans is a major contributing factor to that.

While true, there was a huge amount of Texas swagger about how ERCOT was so much better than everyone else under the thumb of freedom hating FERC. And that the nanny state was not needed to protect consumers from the wisdom of the market. And that power outages in California were a direct result of their godless Communism.