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Tricia Cawthon's party switch in North Carolina gives Republicans a veto-proof supermajority, paving the way for extreme legislation and potential testing grounds for the GOP's strategies nationwide.
North Carolinians, Political Observers
The emotional impact on the affected communities and the potential long-term consequences of extreme legislation in North Carolina and Tennessee.
#NorthCarolina #RepublicanParty #PoliticalShift #ExtremeLegislation #CommunityEngagement
Well, howdy there, internet people.
Let's bow again.
So today we're going to talk about North Carolina
and a major political event that occurred there
that is going to alter the entire landscape
of politics in North Carolina
and how it's pretty likely that the rest of the country
can start looking to that area of the United States
to see what's in store.
Okay, so if you missed the news,
Tricia Cawthon, she was elected in a deep blue district to the state legislature there.
She was elected as a Democrat.
She has switched her party affiliation to Republican.
In the process, she hands Republicans a veto-proof supermajority.
Up until now, any legislation that was put forward, it could be vetoed by the governor
and there were enough votes to hold off an override of that veto.
That's gone now.
The Republican Party has the votes in North Carolina to push through pretty much whatever
they want.
She said, the party that represents me and my principles and what is best for North Carolina
is the Republican Party. I'm a single mom of two amazing sons, a teacher, a small business owner,
a woman with strong faith, a national championship basketball coach, and a public servant. Today I
add a Republican to that list. Okay, so what does this mean? Other than the obvious for North
Carolina that Republicans can pretty much do whatever they want there. On the
national scene it means that North Carolina and Tennessee, most people
judging by the comments, are aware of what's happening in Tennessee with
Republicans attempting to expel Democrats from the state legislature.
That area, North Carolina and Tennessee, are likely to become the testing ground
For the Republican Party's more extreme, more authoritarian projects, they will
probably attempt to move forward there with it and use that as a gauge as to
how it will play out in the rest of the country. This is bad news for those two
states. Not just from a political standpoint, but from an economic one, an
educational one, a public safety one, pretty much everything. You're going to see
more and more extreme legislation move that way unless the Republican Party
learns its lesson from Wisconsin. The odds are though that they won't. The odds
are that they are so caught in their own echo chamber and they have lost touch
with the United States that they try to push through more and more stuff and it
will be an ever-widening group of people that they have othered and that they
attempt to take away their rights from. That is the Republican Party today.
That's what they're about. They're not actually about fixing problems. They're
about catering to an ever-shrinking group that they view as their base and
doing things that will appeal to them on a culture war level rather than actually
making their lives better. They hope that this will give them an energized base
that will show up in large numbers. I don't think this is a sound strategy, but
the Republican Party has doubled down on a failing strategy for like eight years
now, so it is what it is. I would imagine that you're going to see a lot more news
coming out of North Carolina and Tennessee. They will become the new
Florida and Texas, but in North Carolina and Tennessee they are probably going to
be more capable of getting wilder legislation through, more extreme
legislation through, more authoritarian, more of the sort that is designed to
take away rights from people that they have scapegoated. That is the Republican
party today and it looks like Tennessee and North Carolina are going to be used
as an experiment to see if it is if it's a sound electoral strategy. Anyway it's
It's just a thought.
y'all have a good day.
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