Our pro-mayhem governor

It’s hard to take someone seriously as a leader when they are fighting efforts to stop riots and OK-ing refusal to cooperate with law enforcement.  But THAT is what we are getting from our governor-by-default Josh Stein.

Los Angeles is in worse shape than we’ve seen from any Third World banana republic.  But our boy governor — who campaigned as the hard-nosed former leader of state law enforcement – decided to join the mob and attack efforts to restore order on L.A.’s streets.  

Local leaders in California weren’t lifting a hand to restore order.  President Trump stepped in and took charge.  That triggered lil’ Josh and all his playmates from parts north and east of here. That reaction makes you wonder what – if anything – he would do if his fan club decided to riot in Durham or Charlotte. or down the street from my house. Would he lift a finger to protect me, you, or our families?  

(Don’t poo-poo the idea of riots in the streets. Think Charlotte in 2016 and Raleigh — and a bunch of other places — in 2020. )

Now, our boy governor thinks it’s OK to refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement. Ironically, his own daddy – a famous civil rights attorney in the 60s — argued just the opposite back in the day.  LBJ had to do to Alabama’s George Wallace in 1965 what Trump did to Gavin Newsom in 2025.  

How does this refusal not qualify as obstruction of justice?  Or interfering with official business? Both of those are valid criminal charges at the state and federal level. Hopefully, Team Trump will cut off all federal funding to  North Carolina law enforcement – at the state level supervised by Lil’ Josh or at the local level in the refusing communities — until they get their heads right about public safety and the law overruling their Trump Derangement Syndrome psychoses.

It’s too bad we don’t have actual media covering state government.  What’s left of the drive-bys in Raleigh is either too busy fawning over lil’ Josh or waiting for the next opening in a state public affairs office. So, it all falls on this site — and any others like it — to raise these uncomfortable questions.

Personally, I don’t see how lil’ Josh or any of these sheriffs or county commissioners in question avoid jail if the feds want to press the issue.

You can’t purposely sabotage the work of law enforcement officers trying to enforce the law. If that becomes OK, we start our slide into the abyss.