This is just so laughably naive. Helms would have had as much luck stopping Trump as everyone else in the Republican Party did, and he would have been more likely to end up like either Mitch McConnell (tolerating/grudgingly supporting Trump) or even Lindsey Graham (going from warning about the dangers of Trump to full-fledged hypocritical Trump sycophant) than to end up leaving the party on principle like, say, Liz Cheney.
There are plenty of Republicans who find him repugnant. Unfortunately, once he became the nominee most of them fell in line.
Four points? Dude, send me some of what you're smoking.
Living in Carrboro is like living in Shangri-La
For real.
Yeah. I moved down to Rocky Mount for six years and it was right different. It wasn't a bad place to live and, in fairness , I was sick for a good stretch of it but it sure was nice to move back to the Carrboro area.Living in Carrboro is like living in Shangri-La
Helms was the original MAGAt.
not unless there was something in it for him
good to know you have returned
how long ago was that
Paris of the Piedmont!!Living in Carrboro is like living in Shangri-La
Good lord no. Jesse would have been right there with Trump. Would have been two peas in a pod. Add Strom to that for the trifecta
Uh I would love for this to happen but there's no chance. IMO Stein wins by something like 8-10 points and Trump wins by something under 100k votes.
I’ll take the average of those 2 predictions.
Agreed. In many ways Helms (like George Wallace or Joseph McCarthy) was a MAGA prototype. He was all-in on the culture wars before they became a dominant theme of national politics, he was a master at tearing down and belittling his opponents, he was a bigot who as a TV editorialist (shades of Fox News) in Raleigh fulminated against Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement as a bunch of Communists, said he wanted to build a fence around UNC, and indulged in the kind of populist, small town, white blue-collar resentments and grievances that motivate modern MAGAs. He cozied up to the Religious Right (especially the Moral Majority and Jerry Falwell, Sr., who adored him) and hated gays. He would mostly have been right at home with these people, imo.
That's debatable. A left leaning moderate in Carrboro might as well be Trump himself.
No. There are two North Carolinas and you can be in one or the other and not even know the other one exists. The rurals always say, "I know the election was stolen because I don't know a single person who voted for Biden." Unfortunately, the blue voters moving into the blue areas don't outnumber the rednecks' reproductive capabilities just yet. And a lot of these middle class yankees using their home equity to become upper-middle class southerners don't know how to vote either. Any win here will be razor thin and if I'm wrong I'll gladly eat crow and enjoy it.
I still call it Estes Drive Extension.
1967
I don't think Stein will win by 18 points, but I do think he will have a pretty comfortable victory. I agree that Trump is likely going to win NC again, albeit by a very small margin as in 2020. We are easily one of the 5 most politically evenly balanced states in the country (yes, I know our gerrymandering doesn't show it) along with Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona.