The North Carolina GOP's Gubernatorial Candidate is Batshit Crazy

Sometimes it looks as if the Republican Party is having an avid contest to see which states and congressional districts can nominate the most insane, unhinged and extreme candidates.  All too often, Donald Trump happily endorses these batshit crazy circus lunatics so long as they swear slavish fealty to him.  A case in point is the GOP's gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina, Mark Robinson who is so extreme and untethered from reality that he's almost a caricature.    Like Virginia's Lt. Governor, Winsome Sears, Robinson arguably in my opinion belongs in a mental ward, and has a documented history of being anti-woman (he doesn't like women having the right to vote), anti-LGBT, a Holocaust denier, and is a subscriber to all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories, including that 9-11 was an "inside job."  It is difficult thinking of someone who more embodies the insanity of the GOP base than Robinson.  A piece in Vanity Fair looks at Robinson's extremism.  Here are highlights:

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.”

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 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.”