In Virginia, Republicans Wuss Out And Democrats Grab Power

Virginia was taken over by partisan Democrats in a radical act of disenfranchisement and gerrymandering last night, in a snap election where Fairfax County — populated by bureaucrats, contractors, lobbyists, and other people who contribute absolutely nothing enduring to society decided that the Commonwealth, the mother of presidents, should be ruled by Karen in her Emerald Subaru from the Potomac to the Shenandoah.

Abigail Spanberger, the CIA vet avatar of these Karens who, nonetheless, is wise enough to understand that people really, really hate her, was in the New York Times the morning of the vote, spinning the idea that oh, woe is me, this was a gerrymander thrust upon me by forces outside of my control. She can see her potential as a Gavin Newsom running mate slipping away and she is doing her best to reframe herself as the moderate she pretended to be before she forced a plethora of illegal immigrant murderers back on the streets. No one likes your new outfit, Abigail. It’s not working for you.

Meanwhile, the GOP flavor of the month, who used to be the darling of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, utterly flamed out. How much of his personal money — not PAC money, his own, he has a ton of it! — did Glenn Youngkin devote to the effort to block the most obscene gerrymander in the history of the nation? Was it less than the cost of his car? If it was, why should he get the time of day from Republican voters for any position he desires in the future?

The general impression of national Republicans for months has been that Virginia was a total screwup, a situation where bad consultants didn’t know what they were doing and a contest that could’ve been won was instead ignored by national Republican donors. That take doesn’t always turn out to be correct, but it sure looks like it was this time, with the margin coming in far lower than many had predicted. What could’ve happened if Republicans found someone to just match a third of what the Soros family poured into the Commonwealth? We’ll never know. Instead, for the foreseeable future, Virginia will be a state that Democrats win by 3-5 points while taking 10 out of 11 congressional districts.

The only hope the GOP has is legal recourse. There is some basis for this — the referendum was written with clearly biased language, at odds with constitutional requirements, and the special session was clearly inappropriate in terms of the timing of its decision. But do you really expect a court system larded with Democrats to produce a different outcome than the one the party wants? This isn’t a democracy; it’s rule by the Country Club Democrat and their favorite president, Barack Obama. Remember when he was supposed to be a figure who ended partisan divides? That was a fun five minutes. Now he’s just the rampant partisan with the butt-ugly museum you have to spend the cost of a good dinner to tour. He’s publicly celebrating the vote today, as are the wonderful likes of Adam Kinzinger, Bill Kristol, and the gamut of hosts at MSNOW. It turns out the defenders of democracy are only interested in defending it if they cheat for an edge.

What Republicans need to understand after this vote is that they have, without question, lost the House of Representatives. The question now is whether Democrats get a more than 20 vote margin — and the trend certainly looks closer to 25-30. Such a hole will take years to climb out of, thanks in part to a lackadaisical approach that ignored local warnings and embraced the hubris of a nationalized election in a midterm year. Democrats are now set to rule a purple state by a 10-1 margin. The questions to Republicans should be: Do you think what you’re doing is working? Why?