Republican lawmakers had voted to silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during a House floor session after determining the young Black member violated newly enacted rules designed to punish disruptive members.
The Nashville elite are used to running Nashville. It's a tight knit club that everyone knows not to defy. It's been that way for a long long time. It's not even a just republican thing, it's a certain Nashville republicans thing.
That's why they act like spoiled children when someone says anything other than "thank you".
Literal "good ole boys club" ruling a 80% black rural town without any elections in living memory loses power through legal defaults, then decides "fuck it" and keeps ruling based on their personal and social influence.