The next Herschel Walker

Congratulations, North Carolina Republicans. You've just nominated the newest iteration of Herschel Walker in a bid to become our state's next governor.

That happened Tuesday during the state's Super Tuesday primary elections.

Mark Robinson

 Walker, you might remember, was Georgia's effort to put a MAGA Senator in Congress. But Walker turned out to be pretty much a political functional illiterate who ultimately lost his bid to Democrat Raphael Warnock in a race that was closer than it should have been.

Now, we here in North Carolina have been presented with Mark Robinson, the current lieutenant governor who is not only an election denier, but a Holocaust denier, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Muslim, anti-abortion, anti-gun control, civil rights/voting rights mocker and conspiracy theorist who thinks both 9-11 and Jan. 6 were government plots and humanity really didn't put men on the moon.

He's got enough baggage here to start his own TJ Maxx franchise.

His list of offensive remarks for most people is longer than my arm, (just Google "Mark Robinson" to find out for yourself). There are several of his remarks I want to comment on.

The first is the Holocaust, which in 2018 he wrote "this foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash."

And this coming from a guy who studied to be a history teacher.

Another is his view of the LGBTQ+ community, whose people he calls "that filth." After calls for his resignation as lieutenant governor, he said that he wasn't ashamed of his remarks.

Shortly thereafter, Robinson, said straight people are superior to queer folks. Sounds a little Hitlerish there, don't you think?

Also, there's a video clip  where he pines for a time when women didn't have the vote. I have to back up here a bit. That clip is only a snippet and taken out of context. Robinson was actually presented with a question by conservative commentator Candace Owens during a Republican Women of Pitt County event in 2020.

Owns asked Robinson "Which Americas would you want to go back to? One where women couldn't vote or one where Black people were swinging from trees?"

Robinson, a Black man, took the bait and said he'd rather live in an America where women couldn't vote.

The better answer would have been to ask what the hell type of question was that to ask in 2020? And then not to answer it at all. Next question.

The fact that he did give an answer – which will now serve effectively against him in the upcoming campaign – calls into question his ability to make rational decisions for this state.

Robinson will be going against Democrat Josh Stein for the state's governorship in November, and on the surface, at least, Robinson looks to be unelectable. But, as events have shown, even extremists seem to be electable these days.

Be careful. Be informed.