On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
But just four years ago, Robinson invoked a bizarre hypothetical in which he said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.
“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.
During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”
I gather that female suffrage was a “real social change” the good senator disapproves of, though:
The North Carolina Republican’s longing for the days when women couldn’t vote ties into his history of demeaning women and mocking feminism, especially on social media. He’s claimed that feminism was created by Satan. He’s said that men who identify as feminists are “about as MANLY as a pair of lace panties” and are “weak mined, jelly backed ‘men.’” He’s routinely referred to feminists as “fem-nazis” and, in one particularly colorful post, described those who support equal rights for women as “sexist, hairy armpit having, poo-poo hat wearing pinkos.”
“The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.
This is Mark Robinson, by the way:
And with all due respect to him, I say, SIR. You are one of the last people who should be talking about other people not knowing their place, cos there’s a shitload of white men and women in the party you stand for who’d love to tell you to know YOUR place—and how, if he’d been in North Carolina 200 years ago, that place would’ve been in servitude, not the Senate. Also, he’s been prone to quoting Hitler in the past and promoting various conspiracy theories, including…
HOLY FUCK, SIMON COWELL IS THE ILLUMINATI! No, seriously, Mark Keith Robinson believes, or at least did so in 2015 (and I see no reason to assume he doesn’t still), that competition shows like American Idol and Dancing With the Stars are forerunners of the fucking New World Order. I mean… Stalin’s trials were about eliminating his enemies. That’s slightly different from the Idol remit of finding someone to front a pre-fabricated pop career for a record company… like, Kelly Clarkson won the very first series but they didn’t then execute the ones who lost. They got eliminated from the show but not existence. The Old Bolsheviks didn’t have to demonstrate which of them was the best at big band jazz. Jesus fuck.
And THIS is what the Republicans are offering in North Carolina. Sending their best, indeed.
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