Tell me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state without telling me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state.
Authoritarian blue states do this crap too. This has nothing to do with the set of policy positions on your party's official platform and everything to do with being a totalitarian jerk, a characteristic that abounds among politicians and high level government officials in general across many parties and nations.
It’s a consequence of having people 80 years old who can barely write an email and still use Internet Explorer on AOL run things. Party is irrelevant in this case for sure
Well done. Authoritarianism is alive and well across the political spectrum.