Christian Nationalists Pursue State Capture — and North Carolina Is Exhibit A

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is running a campaign to become the state’s next governor.

Frida Ghitis: Robinson 's vision for North Carolina is a kind of Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale: He dreams of Christian supremacy, openly enforced by police and armed civilians.

She says Robinson 's policies would mean rolling back abortion rights even further; defunding public schools, defunding all school-based discussions of race, gender and sexuality.

Ghitis says Robinson is an example of what our politics in 2024 have boiled down to: inflammatory and uncompromising.

LZ Granderson: A North Carolina task force found that kids in the state were being indoctrinated with “critical race theory” LZ: The report cherry-picked submissions from conservative parents and teachers whose complaints included teachers posting Black Lives Matter signs, teaching about racial discrimination and racial equity.

She says the GOP is trying to increase school vouchers and offer them to wealthy families while shifting funding out of the public school system.

The long-term impact is actually to defund public schools, creating an ill-informed and disempowered electorate with little power.