The bar for a Mark Robinson scandal was high.

North Carolinians like me have known about some of his antics for a while – now, the rest of the country is catching up.

The Republican lieutenant governor and gubernatorial nominee was already a known Holocaust denier. He has referred to LGBTQ people as “filth.” He is vehemently anti-abortion, despite admitting to paying for one 30 years ago.

Yet recent revelations about Robinson’s online presence could sink his political aspirations once and for all. It could even affect former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning North Carolina.

According to a recent CNN investigation, Robinson reportedly referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and a “perv.” fantasized about transgender pornography and admitted to peeping in a women’s locker room when he was 14 years old. He posted about all of this and more on Nude Africa, a pornographic forum.

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