Hard to get too upset about one of them getting arrested for protesting.
It's the crack-heads, gun-runners, rapists, etc... among that group that are a genuine concern.
The Dem's and liberal groups in NC are VERY butt hurt over the election results of '10 and '12 in NC. The R's took control of the legislature for the first time since the 1850's or something in '10 and extended it to a veto proof margin in '12 and took the Governor spot too. They run the show completely and the d's can't stop anything. They are not handling it very well at all.
NC has always voted for R's for president and mostly for Senate. But with congressmen and NC state legislature seats, the D's had the majority since the 1800's and they gerrymandered the heck out of the districts and until '10 managed to keep the majorities. But after obamacare, et al. the D's were killed in NC and after '10 was the redistricting from the new census. The R's turned the tables and the D's have been killed since.
Nationally the R's haven't done great in the Senate battles or POTUS but on the state levels in most areas, they have large margins.