Perhaps 10 years ago people would have been floored by these winners. But now? Why should anyone be shocked that Trump’s Republican Party nominated a Trump Republican?
A better question: How might North Carolina’s lurch rightward benefit Biden and other Democrats running in the state? Before we explore how Dems can benefit from extremists, let’s get to know more about Morrow. Here’s CNN:
Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina’s Republican primary, expressed support in 2020 for the televised execution of former President Barack Obama and suggested killing then-President-elect Joe Biden.
In other comments on social media between 2019 and 2021 reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Morrow made disturbing suggestions about executing prominent Democrats for treason, including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chuck Schumer and other prominent people such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.
“I prefer a Pay Per View of him in front of the firing squad,” she wrote in a tweet from May 2020, responding to a user sharing a conspiracy theory who suggested sending Obama to prison at Guantanamo Bay. “I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”
The GOP as a whole should instantly rebuke Morrow for these incendiary takes, but it’s far more likely they’ll become part of the official GOP platform. Assuming they bother to publish one, that is—and assuming it’s not just a four-page list of instructions for sponge-bathing Donald Trump.
It gets worse, believe it or not. In December 2020, Morrow implied that then-President-elect Biden should be killed for suggesting that people might want to wear masks for 100 days to stop a deadly virus from spreading further out of control.
Morrow’s also a homeschooler trying to take the reins of the state’s public school system after having disparaged public schools as “socialism centers” that parents should avoid sending their kids to. Which, come to think of it, is a little like running for president of the world’s foremost liberal democracy in hopes of turning it into an autocratic oligarchy.
Morrow also appears to be a QAnon adherent who once claimed that tens of thousands of Chinese troops were massed at the Canadian and Mexican borders, awaiting the order to invade and install Joe Biden as president.
So the first question—after “Why is this bad news for Joe Biden?” of course—is “Will North Carolina voters notice that the GOP as a whole is now barely distinguishable from Adolf Eichmann Bobblehead Night at the monthly Patriot Front Cockfight and Pancake Breakfast?”
The answer? Well, voters aren’t noticing much of anything this early in the election cycle, but they just might notice this frothy fuckery. Seriously, how can they not?
Indeed, in a recent New York Times story about Biden’s prospects in both Georgia and North Carolina, Democrats appeared sanguine about their chances of flipping the latter from red bonkers to blue.
Prominent Democratic groups are planning to target North Carolina, particularly because of the involvement of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor. His inflammatory comments and politically toxic positions stand out even in a party that has put forward many flawed nominees for top offices in recent years.
Among other things, Mr. Robinson has quoted Hitler on Facebook, flirted with Holocaust denial and referred to “transgenderism” and “homosexuality” as “filth.” He has also expressed support for a six-week abortion ban, a stance Democrats have already seized on.
Pat Dennis, the president of American Bridge 21st Century, a liberal group that digs into the histories of Republican candidates, said Mr. Robinson was a “dream” for opposition researchers, adding that candidates like him who hold right-wing views on abortion “really help define the race in the suburbs, which I think is where North Carolina will be won or lost.”
Unfortunately for Republicans, they appear to have learned nothing from their recent stumbles. Extreme MAGA-aligned candidates—notably Herschel Walker in Georgia, Kari Lake in Arizona, and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania—clearly hurt Republicans’ chances in 2022. And unless six-week abortion bans, QAnon conspiracy theories, extrajudicial executions of political rivals, blind hatred of public schools, and the wit and wisdom of Adolf Hitler suddenly start trending on Cosmopolitan magazine’s 2024 Hot List, Republicans should face an uphill climb with suburban North Carolina moms in November.
Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos
Randy Bryce
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Paul Ryan passed a 1.5 trillion dollar tax bill that takes from working people to give to the super rich.
Days later, he got $500,000 in Koch contributions.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-paysout-to-ryan-after-taxlaw_us_5a63ce41e4b0dc592a09697c …
Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law
That’s peanuts compared with what the Koch brothers will save.
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Ryan would be hard-pressed to claim that these donations had nothing at all to do with the passage of the bill, considering the Koch brothers spent millions on the effort to sell the scam to the American people.
Bryce has been taking Ryan to task from the beginning for the GOP’s inability to actually get anything substantive done that benefits everyday Americans and for refusing to defend the nation from Donald Trump’s dangerous rhetoric around North Korea and potential use of nuclear weapons.
It’s no wonder Ryan, who has held his House seat since 1999, is embarrassingly close to the relatively unknown Bryce in early polling, and why he may even be considering retiring after this year.
Accepting massive donations from the super-rich just days after inflicting the tax scam bill on working Americans is unlikely to widen that gap in Ryan’s favor.