McAuliffe’s Election Loss Was Far Worse Than The Final Vote Tally
And It Isn’t For Any Reasons You Have Watched on TV
The Virginia elections were big news last week as House Republicans flipped seats to gain a majority. The GOP also took back the Governor’s Mansion and traded out a blue A.G. for a red one.
As propagandists do, Fox repeatedly framed this victory as a rebuke on everything every Liberal has said or done on anything ever. State TV is giddy over the results and feel because rarely happens in a President’s first year it is that much more serious.
Rare? Nope, Virginia voters changed their mind, and cleaned house in the first year of the President’s first term going all the way back to Reagan. This is first time Virgina switched and New Jersey did not. So if this was a rebuke against “them liberal socialist marxist far left lefties”, it was only half a rebuke.
While the pundits debate how bad this is or isn’t and why, there seems to be something percolating under the surface.
Glen Youngkin didn’t build up a coalition of voters and crush it in a primary. He was handpicked at their convention. He had no ideas and thus, no ideas that could be challenged. There was no platform on the website and no Issues Desk in the morning preps. On the stump he was intentionally vague and rarely committed to a policy. He spoke more poetically (like Obama without the greatness) and really only made one campaign promise.
His game plan was mainly blame the dems and stand back. His campaign was on life support until Terry McAuliffe decided he was going to tell parents they have no choice about their child’s education. McAuliffe ran on real issues and didn’t shy away from or waffle on his views while publishing his visoin on his campaign website.
The remaining weeks of the campaign, Youngkin went on a rampage about Critical Race Theory and how he will ban it on day one. Except, CRT isn’t being taught at the high school level and to go with that narrative is a strange phenomenon in the GOP. However, the Democrats play a huge role in the grift when they remain silent.
Why should the Dems be nervous? The vote margin wasn’t that far apart. Critical Race Theory is not and never was taught in any of the schools in Virginia and for the last 50 years the voters flipped a switch and went another way on the first chance with a new President in office.
The Democrats need to worry Youngkin won the election by literally doing nothing and waiting for a mistake from his opponent. Everyone should worry because he floated along on the CRT lie — what else is he capable of?
