NC Lt Gov To Moms For Liberty: Read Books By Hitler

The New Republic reports:

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson thinks that dictators such as Hitler and Mao are being taken out of context, and their work is worth reconsidering. Robinson was one of the speakers at the second annual summit for Moms for Liberty.

“And here’s the thing,” Robinson said during his speech on Sunday. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler; whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao; whether you’re talking about Stalin; whether you’re talking about Pol Pot; whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba; or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe, it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”

This isn’t the first time that either Robinson or Moms for Liberty has embraced Hitler. Robinson, who took office in 2021, has a long history of spreading aggressively antisemitic, anti-Black, and homophobic rhetoric online. A deep dive by Talking Points Memo into the past seven years of Robinson’s Facebook activity also found that he shared conspiracy theories, 2020 election falsehoods, and even Holocaust denialism.

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Robinson, who is running for governor, has appeared here many times for his Christian nationalist and viciously anti-LGBTQ statements.

We have reached the point where Republican elected officials are pushing for bans on LGBTQ books but encouraging all to read books by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. https://t.co/pLBlzpk95F

— Charlotte Clymer (@cmclymer) July 5, 2023