After winning the GOP primary on Tuesday, North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson now has a very real chance of being elected governor of the state next November. What should voters know about Robinson before then? Well, for starters, that he’d like to go back to a time in American history when half of the population didn’t have the constitutional right to cast a ballot.
Yes, as HuffPost reports, a recently unearthed video from 2020 shows Robinson publicly declaring, “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote.”
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While this is obviously shocking, it’s merely a drop in the bucket of the completely wild comments Robinson has made over the years. (Neither Robinson’s campaign nor his government office responded to HuffPost’s requests for comment.) As my colleague Abigail Tracy reported last July, the amount of disturbing remarks that have come out of Robinson’s mouth—on everything from women to LGBTQ+ people to Jews to feminism—could fill entire volumes. A mere sampling of that commentary includes:
- A 2017 Facebook post trivializing domestic violence, in which Robinson wrote, “So if someone beats the bird dog hell of their spouse at the mall….is it still ‘Domestic Violence?’”
- A 2018 Facebook post in which he wrote, “So if a woman who ‘transitioned’ into a ‘man’ marries and abuses a man who ‘transitioned’ into a ‘woman’ is it still ‘violence against a woman?’ Will the feminist raise hell over it? I’m asking for a British Cigarette.”
- Memes Robinson shared mocking the victims of Harvey Weinstein and Bill O’Reilly.
- A post in which Robinson claimed that “feminism was planted in the ‘Garden,’ watered by the devil, and is harvested and sold by his minions”; one in which he wrote that “lesbianism and feminism” are destroying the family; another saying feminists are “as bad, if not worse, than racist[s]”; and one declaring that any man who refers to himself as a feminist is “about as MANLY as a pair of lace panties.”
- The declaration that people who support equal rights for women are “sexist, hairy armpit having, poo-poo hat wearing pinkos.”
- A series of remarks in which Robinson called women “whores,” “witches,” and “rejected drag queens,” and women who breastfeed in public “shameless attention hogs.”
- Equating the LGBTQ+ community with “filth.”
- Quoting Hitler and basically telling people to get over the Holocaust.
- Saying he doesn’t trust Muslims.
Oh, and Robinson is a conspiracy theorist to boot, saying, among other things, that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if 9/11 turned out to be an inside job or if the 1969 moon landing had been faked; that he’s “SERIOUSLY skeptical” JFK was assassinated; and that Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was a paid actor.
Trump, of course, wants Robinson to be the next governor of North Carolina, endorsing the guy for the job and absurdly calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”