That was a pretty consequential off-year election.
Turns out that Critical Race Theory and radical transgenderism are deeply unpopular among actual voters. Who knew?
Republicans also won control of the Virginia House of Delegates, flipping six seats held by Democrats. Democrats still control the Virginia Senate.
Here in Virginia, the sun is shining a little brighter, the birds are chirping sweetly, the leaves are turning vibrant colors, and Republicans just stomped the bejeebers out of Democrats up and down the ballot. A “bloodbath,” as University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato told Rachel Maddow last night. “A five-alarm fire,” as Van Jones declared on CNN.
Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race by about 70,000 votes over Terry McAuliffe, Winsome Sears won the lieutenant-governor’s race by about 56,000 votes, and Jason Miyares won the state attorney-general’s race by about 34,000 votes. Democratic incumbent AG Mark Herring was the guy who called upon governor Ralph Northam to resign, despite his own past wearing of blackface. The night was so bad that McAuliffe’s surrogates canceled on Chuck Todd and wouldn’t come out and eat their humble pie.
Republicans picked up six seats to win control of the House of Delegates — the oldest continuous legislative body in the Western Hemisphere — with 51 seats to the Democrats’ 49 seats. This is one of the indicators that even though Terry McAuliffe was a deeply flawed candidate, the problem for Democrats was not just him. (With McAuliffe’s defeat, the last gasp of the Clinton political legacy ends.) This should dispel the defeatist “Virginia is a blue state now” talk among Republicans.
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Once schools did come back, some parents didn’t like what they saw in their children’s curricula and also how schools handled some big issues. What did it mean if teachers were instructed to “embrace critical race theory,” “engage in race-conscious teaching and learning,” “teach code-switching in positive, nonjudgmental ways,” and “re-engineer attitudes and belief systems”? What kinds of materials are appropriate for sex education, and what kinds of materials are age-appropriate for school libraries? Do schools quickly and accurately report sexual assault and violence, or are they trying to sweep it under the rug?
And when parents objected, the National Association of School Boards labeled them “domestic terrorists” and demanded “the resources of the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, and its National Threat Assessment Center” to investigate them.
As Robby Soave summarized, “The public school system abused families’ trust during the pandemic, and the reckoning has just begun.”
Nebraska senator Ben Sasse contended that the teachers’ unions delivered the governor’s mansion to Youngkin.
“The Virginia GOP’s MVP has to go to Randi Weingarten, the leader of a radical teachers’ union that ignored actual teaching, politicized everything, shut down schools, and literally tried to tell parents to shut up. Congrats, Randi, you really turned out the vote,” Sasse declared in a released statement. “Congrats to Glenn Youngkin as well, on a sane, well-run campaign — and may all American politicians finally reject drunken, anti-parent rage from radicals like Randi Weingarten.”
Some Twitter reactions to Virginia:
Maybe "your kids belong to us and also fuck you" was not the greatest education slogan for Democrats to run on
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) November 3, 2021
I’m very surprised to learn that classifying parents as domestic terrorists for not wanting their children to learn racist and pornographic material in school is not a winning election strategy.
Who knew.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 3, 2021
As God is my witness, I thought the Randi Weingarten endorsement would put him over the top
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 3, 2021
Everything The Lincoln Project Touches Dies or is Under 18.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 3, 2021
If screaming about racism tanks your previously-favored campaign in a few short weeks, maybe the lesson you draw from your loss shouldn't be "we didn't scream hard enough about racism."
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 3, 2021
Youngkin would have lost by ten points if he’d remained in the mode of a cookie cutter Republican. Instead he embraced the culture war, started talking about issues people actually care about, and everything changed.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 3, 2021
Running for Governor but you want to lose your election? Seek the coveted @BillKristol endorsement! https://t.co/rSQGvTNLrI
— Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) November 3, 2021
I think Dems underestimated how rightfully resistant the black community would be to vaccine mandates.
— Kween Josie of all the Liberty (@KweenJosie) November 3, 2021
All they had to do was not be crazy. And they just couldn't.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 3, 2021
Which one is the VA Democrat governor and which one is the Republican who won an election in VA last night? pic.twitter.com/KoCD9xsaZ5
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) November 3, 2021
If Sears were a Democrat, the leftwing media would never tire of telling us how historic her election was. Since she’s a Republican, the MSM tried to make her all but invisible. What was the media’s reaction to Republican ticket with a black Lt. Governor and a Hispanic attorney general winning? It was because of racism:
To the surprise of absolutely no one who’s been paying attention to the execrable members of the mainstream media, their response to this momentous occasion was to say that the Republicans won because of racism.
They’re not only evil, but they’re also lazy too.
As we have discussed on many occasions, the Democrats and their media mouthpieces are truly broken people. They were barely tethered to reality when Trump became the Republican nominee in 2016. His victory ripped them from any moorings that they had. Now incapable of rational thought, all they can do is reflexively belch “Racism!” whenever bested by a Republican. They’ve got nothing else, which is why that’s all they’ve got in response to the Virginia results despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
They’re still lying about Critical Race Theory, which is just going to keep making them dig deeper holes for themselves. There were stories about anti-CRT conservatives taking over school boards, like this one in Texas. Of course, NBC News spun that as the victors being anti-diversity. The biggest of the lies about CRT is that it’s “anti-racist,” which it is not. It’s racist, it’s commie, and it’s all about fomenting division.
It wasn’t just CRT that was on the ballot in Virginia last night, it was also a referendum on what the drooling idiot usurper in the Oval Office has done to the country since January. The media won’t dwell on that though, they’re still tasked with carrying all of the water for President LOL Eightyonemillion.
I’ve been writing and saying for months that the egregious overreach by the Democrats would be their undoing. This is the first electoral manifestation of that.
(Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
“Terry McAuliffe Baffled That Telling Parents The State Owns Their Children Wasn’t A Winning Strategy.”
Following a year of heated controversy in the state’s third-largest school district, challengers have unseated three long-time incumbents for positions on the school board.
The winners in the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (CFISD) election — Natalie Blasingame, Scott Henry, and Lucas Scanlon — were all endorsed by the Harris County Republican Party (HCRP), the Conservative Coalition of Harris County (CCHC), and business political networking organization BIZPAC.
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The Prop A vs. Camping Ban thing is easy to understand.
There is no contradiction for someone on the “right” to hold that both homeless people **and** police are capable of breaking the law, and that neither deserve our support.
The police are the tip of the spear who enforce a whole raft of unconstitutional laws and orders, from lockdowns and mask mandates to gun-free zones and red flag laws. They break the law with impunity and engage in abhorrent practices like civil asset forfeiture. They lie under oath and rarely get charged.
Look what is happening to Sgt. Daniel Perry – he is being railroaded, and the APD detective admitted that he changed his testimony to remove exculpatory evidence. Yeah, he says did it under orders from the prosecutors, but he still did it. “I was only following orders” is not a defense.
There’s just not a whole lot of love left on the right for the cops.
It’s hard to argue that we need more cops, or that they deserve more money, when everyone, left and right, all saw the way they treated citizens over the past 18 months.
If the police want more funding, they need to make some serious amends on both sides of the aisle. And if Austin cuts off their funding and the city spiral into chaos, then the voters get what they want — and the police who lose their jobs get to experience what it’s like to be on the other side of the power equation for a change. That seems like a fair trade to me.
I would also add: if police departments around the country want more funding, they should sell their military-surplus equipment – MRAPs, tanks, drones, etc.
The militarization of the police over the past dozen years is horrifying, and selling this stuff could sure help their funding woes. Departments across the fruited plain have amassed a mountain of vehicles and ammo made for war, arms that have no business in community policing.
Paraphrasing Captain Adama, the more you blur the lines between police and military, the more regular citizens start to look like enemies of the state.
Maybe they can sell it to the Philippines. Couldn’t hurt, with China breathing down their neck. Israel? Why not. Taiwan? Ukraine? India?
I’m guessing someone will retort that’s not legal. Maybe so. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Sell to a 3rd party that can sell get it done.
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