Originally published at: With House Veto Override Vote, North Carolina Republicans’ Power Grab Is Complete - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The North Carolina House voted on Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto on a GOP-backed bill that will strip power from the newly-elected Democratic Gov. Josh Stein and Attorney General Jeff Jackson. The vote total was 72-46. In the waning days of its veto-proof supermajority last month, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a sweeping…
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So much for VOTING or LAW AND ORDER or any ethics, values or morals from the Republican Party.
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Either voters start rejecting the erosion of democracy at the ballot box by throwing the GOP out of office, or power grabs and gerrymanders will take political power right out of their hands.
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A party that is about to lose office is demonstrating why they don’t deserve to be trusted to hold office in the future.
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There’s only one thing that can save democracy in North Carolina now and that’s a series of Supreme Court elections that toss out the Republicans on the court. I’d also say a change of heart by Republicans but the fact that they picked up three “moderates” on this override vote says that’s not going to happen. They are intent on minority rule.
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They’re scared of Jeff Jackson, the new AG. He won a house seat so they redistricted him out of that, then he won AG and they took most of his power away. He’s on social media a lot, comes across as a level-headed sane and responsible grown up, so of course the screaming chaos monkeys hate him.
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I admire how viciously the right fights. Truly I do.
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The Republicans are cetainly not shy about what they are doing.
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It’s not a democracy, it’s a c̶o̶o̶k̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ Republic!
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Ah, it’s the future of the U.S. writ small.
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This is awful. IANAL, but surely there are constitutional issues here.
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Win.
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This is all a voluntary exercise.
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Hitler acquired power with 43.9% of the vote.
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the fast tracked bill
The only problems Republicans intend to solve are those dealing with the unelectability of Republican politicians and cons.
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Can’t we all agree?
Rethugliklans usurping all previous democratic norms is, well, the way, the truth and the life.
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It’s kind of annoying that democrats would be punished in the media and by the voters if they pulled this same stunt. Representative idiocracy it is.
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One surprising term creeping into economic discussions about the US is clientelism. In some ways, it is a symptom of the ever-increasing wealth inequality in the US. It also positively drives voting by low-information poor voters. Americans have traditionally been given this very transactional tit-for-tat image of corruption, and certainly China’s traditional guanxi “old boy” networks embodied this. But what we see now is something that is long-term and really thrives in environments of maldistributed wealth and access. Obey in advance in this sense is a clear-eyed approach to a realization that the neoliberal model didn’t result in Sweden or even a Danish model in the US. At the international level, there is a realization that the US will have to be treated as a different animal going forward. Moreover, it is not really that new a model, just that it is doing well in the US and some countries in Europe at the moment.
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It thrives in environments of collapse.
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The Nazis has a vote share of 33 percent in November 1932, down from 37 percent in July of that year. Where are you getting that particular figure?