After Primaries, Eyes Turn to North Carolina Republican Who ‘Hates Everybody’
Trump-supported Robinson running for governor of the Tar Heel State
If President Biden and other Democrats do extraordinarily well in North Carolina this November, you'll probably be able to look no further than to Republican Mark Robinson to understand why.
Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, won his party’s nomination to run for the top job in Tuesday’s primary election.
Called “Martin Luther King times two” by Donald Trump, Robinson has a history not only incidendary rhetoric but racist and fascistic.
Robinson, North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor, will face Democrat Josh Stein, the state attorney general, in November. Robinson and Stein are attempting to succeed the current Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, who is term limited.
In 2014, Robinson quoted Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Facebook in a statement about racial pride. He defended the post in a speech last July, saying quoting the Nazi leader doesn’t equate to supporting him.
More recently, he has described COVID-19 as a “globalist” conspiracy to destroy Trump. In 2021, he criticized efforts to teach LGBTQ+ issues in sex education, referring to transgender and homosexual people as “filth,” and also said people who are gay are equivalent to “what the cows leave behind” as well as “maggots” and “flies.”
He once described the movie Black Panther as “created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by [a] satanic marxist.” He then said it “was only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets.”
The Tar Heel State’s gubernatorial campaign hoonly has gotten started and, already, Robinson is coming under extreme scrutiny for his litany of abhorrent language.
“Republicans in North Carolina have nominated a Holocaust-denying, LGBTQ-hating, gun-loving, anti-abortion extremist, Christian nationalist zealot, who also happens to be a Black man who hates the civil rights movement, as their nominee for governor,” MSNBC host Joy Reid said during her Wednesday evening program.
Actor and comedian Ronny Chieng also highlighted Robinson’s record of rhetoric Wednesday when he hosted Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.
“Wow. This guy hates everybody! Gay people, Jewish people, women, school shooting survivors, Beyonce. I mean, this guy is so into hating people, he even hates MLK. I know we’re a divided country, but I thought the one thing we could all agree on was ‘MLK good,’” Chieng said. “And by the way, you can’t just hate on everyone and leave out the Asians. Okay? That’s racist.
“I will give him credit, though. You don’t usually hear an anti-Semite busting out Yiddish. It’s a very woke form of hatred,” he quipped. “So, this guy is saying some pretty extreme things. Let me guess how Trump feels about him.”
Exposing Robinson for who, and what, he is, is exactly how he will be defeated in November, according to his Democratic opponent.
“You tell people who you are, what you’re about, what you want to do as governor, and you tell people who he is and what he’s about,” said Stein, who was a guest on Reid’s program. “You know, you ask about the fact that, ‘Hey, this guy has already been elected once.’ I humanly believe that the voters of North Carolina did not know what they were getting when he was elected in 2020. And my imperative, and our campaign’s imperative, is to inform voters, because there could not be a starker choice for people.
“I spent my entire career fighting for people and delivering. As an A.G., we led the national effort on the opioid crisis. We’ve eliminated the largest backlog of untested rape kits in the country. We have fought to defend women’s access to reproductive rights and everybody’s right to vote in North Carolina,” Stein added. “Meanwhile, Mark Robinson, you saw it, all he does is fight the job-killing culture wars. And I believe, I have confidence that the people of North Carolina, if they have the full information, they’ll make the right choice.”
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