BusinessNC.com interviewed Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, the man who says he intends to kick Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger to the curb in next March's Republican primary. What motivates Sam Page, BusinessNC wanted to know.
Gambling casinos -- first thing out of Page's mouth. Gambling casinos, one of them specially designed for Rockingham County in backrooms by Phil Berger and other members of his dynastic family, a power move by a man many considered unassailable, which outraged the massively self-righteous chief law enforcement officer for the county.
In fact, and reading between the lines, Page is mainly prompted to action against Berger by a Captain America self-image of standing up against big men with low morals. That's potent stuff. Phil Berger has heaps too much power and needs to be beaten down a peg or two. Who better than a sheriff to do it?
But did I say self-righteous? What also emerged in that BusinessNC interview is the cold heartedness that often undergirds self-righteousness -- Page's dismissal of the poor, because the second plausible reason he gave for primarying the big man was Berger's caving to Roy Cooper to extend Medicaid insurance coverage to some 600,000 North Carolinians who need it. That's a motivation for running for office? Seriously? The desire to make life harder for a whole bunch of people.
That's as trumpist as it gets.
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