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Robinson, the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina, has a history of extreme rhetoric that's put him at odds even with members of his own party.
The out lesbian is one of the vulnerable Democrats hoping to beat anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans in this year's election.
The temptation exists in our culture to relate current events to famous past historical moments via some cliched shorthand. Every scandal is a something-gate. Every trend du jour is the new black. And in this digital era, every new version of something that happened before is a 2.0 -- like the overly simplistic effort to brand the protests that followed the passing of Prop. 8 as Stonewall 2.0.
