A recent poll indicates 66% of North Carolina Republicans will vote for Donald Trump. Two-thirds. Twelve percent support Nikki Haley, nine are for Ron DeSantis.
Trump said in January if he ordered members of Seal Team 6 to murder his political opponents, he’d be absolutely immune from prosecution. I assume, then, that if Joe Biden commanded the same team to kill Trump tonight, he’d also go free. Trump added that Abraham Lincoln was to blame for the Civil War — he should have brokered a slavery deal. He then played the false “birther” card against Nikki Haley like he had against President Barack Obama and shared a video called “God Made Trump.”
Trump has said he’ll pardon the Jan. 6th insurrectionists — calling them “hostages”. He claimed, echoing Hitler, immigrants “poison the blood of the nation.” He brutally separated mothers from their babies at the border and now wants to build huge prison camps for the undocumented.
Trump says he’d repeal the 14th Amendment; he claims he can suspend the entire constitution; and indicates he’ll become “dictator for a day.” He’s threatened to close NBC and other networks he dislikes. His defense secretary, Mark Esper, said he broke with Trump because he wanted to use the military to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters on American streets.
Trump told Vice President Pence to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and, when he refused, said he agreed with the rioters that he should be hung. He told the Georgia Secretary of State to “gimme a break, I just need you to get me 11,780 votes,” and then made threats of prosecution when he refused. He told his followers if he wins, he’ll be “their vengeance,” their retribution. He published Barack Obama’s address to endanger his family. He said if a court rules against him, “bedlam” will break out in the country.
Trump suggested General Mark Milley should be executed. He didn’t want to visit the graves of fallen soldiers in Normandy because it might muss his hair. He told a Gold Star father, at his heroic son’s grave, he didn’t get it, “what was in it for him?” He said he didn’t want disabled veterans at events because “it’s a bad look.”
Trump said John McCain was a loser and made fun of him for being unable to lift his arms after being beaten and tortured as a prisoner of war. McCain, who refused an offered earlier release because it was against “honor,” had asked: “What kind of life would I have without honor.” Meghan McCain responded: “Donald Trump is a piece of sh*t, election-denying huckster, whose own wife won’t campaign with him.”
A court ruled Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. He bragged, on tape, that he likes to grab women “by the p——-.” He proposed a ban on Muslims coming to the US. And, of course, he tried to enlist the Congress, the Vice-President, the Attorney General, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. military, scores of American courts, various state legislatures, numerous slates of recruited fake electors, and, finally, thousands of violent thugs to overthrow the lawful government of the United States.
This is the candidate 66% of NC Republicans support. The candidate N.C. leaders Mark Robinson, Phil Berger Tim Moore, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis, Virginia Foxx, Dan Bishop, Greg Murphy, Richard Hudson and David Rouzer will seek to elect in November. Chris Christie has explained that anyone who won’t publicly say Trump is unfit for office is himself unfit for office. Amen. I assume almost everyone believed North Carolina was better than this.
Gene Nichol is Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and in 2015 started the North Carolina Poverty Research Fund after the UNC Board of Governors closed the state-funded Poverty Center for publishing articles critical of the governor and General Assembly.
From The Progressive Populist, February 15, 2024
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