The New York Times described the push by North Carolina’s legislature to limit executive power as “a brazen power grab.” The Atlantic labeled the Republican effort “unabashed.” And CNN called the move “an unprecedented power grab.”

But history is more likely to remember the episode as a throwback to the 1980s. That’s because parliamentary warfare between branches isn’t new in North Carolina. After all, Democrats perfected it.

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