Mark Robinson and the Sweet Nothings of MAGA
When Herschel Walker ran for Senate, I warned everyone about the deluge of opposition research that was coming out if he was the Republican nominee. Walker’s past indiscretions of affairs and funding coerced abortions were the worst kept secret in all of politics. But Donald Trump didn’t see it that way. Trump surmised that the all-time great Georgia running back would be a shoo-in against incumbent senator Raphael Warnock.
After warning everyone for months, Herschel Walker won the nomination and paved the way for Raphael Warnock to remain in Washington. In the same cycle that Brian Kemp won by nine points and Ron DeSantis won by 19 points, Kemp’s historically powerful ground game still wasn’t powerful enough to drag Herschel across the finish line.
The exact same thing is happening in North Carolina. Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was busted posting vile and obscene comments on pornography message boards during a five-year span over a decade ago. While I only knew the rumors of Mark Robinson’s indiscretions, many people in North Carolina have known the explicit details of his Nazi comparisons and fixation on transgender porn for years.
Mark Robinson joins a very long list of poorly vetted candidates who earned the Republican nomination because they could pronounce Jesus with five syllables and whispered sweet melodies in the ear of Donald Trump. The difference this time is Mark Robinson may have just put North Carolina in the hands of Democrats and cost Donald Trump the election. Watch:
Catch yesterday’s full show here:
Perhaps MAGA will finally burn itself out after this election and when people see the disastrous results of a candidate who never received a single primary vote and can’t do an interview there will be a reset. I’m not hopeful, though. I voted for Trump in 2020 because of his policies and will do so again this year just because the other side is so terrible. But he also seems to be reversing himself on a lot of previous policies to get to the middle (or should I say middle left). And his track record on endorsing candidates in seats that should be competitive is terrible.
Your story about Hershel Walker and this episode with Mark Robinson illustrate something obvious to many of us that I don't believe your audience understands - that the Republican party has become largely a tribe in service to the buffoonish unhinged ramblings of a singular moron.
Trump telegraphs support for a bozo in a primary and people are afraid to divulge damaging information about that person for fear of MAGA's wrath that could have helped win the state with a better nominee in the primary.
Senator Langford negotiates a bipartisan border deal that includes elements of republicans years long wishlist and Trump gives it the thumbs down because he wants to run on the border catastrophe and it doesn't even come up for a vote.
Speakership chaos after the seat becomes open and Trump determines that no one who voted to certify the 2020 election can win the chair
The SAVE ACT and now the Georgia state election board vote counting measure are both to varying degrees utter bullsh_t meant to imply that there has been some "election integrity" issues that caused Trump to lose that need to be fixed. we are wasting time in an almost literal performative leg humping ritual to one buffoon.
The list goes on and on. The dems focus on advancing flawed policy because they are not a cult in service to a singular idiot, and that unfortunately is something I am now envious of.