If there ever was an era of enlightened politics where principles mattered - I'm doubtful - it's well past. This is just symbolic red meat for the exurban base

If there ever was an era of enlightened politics where principles mattered - I'm doubtful - it's well past. This is just symbolic red meat for the exurban base and a deliberate poke in the eye to urban liberals (in the American sense of the term.) If there's upside to this sort of nonsense, it is that the congenital inability of the cussed-mean segment of the American body politic to restrain itself from repeatedly delivering insults of this kind tends to be a major factor limiting its reach. See Pat McCrory.