Democrats won a major victory in Virginia on Tuesday, dashing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hopes of bringing the blue-leaning state back from the brink. Newly emboldened Democrats are now likely to make him a sideshow in his own state — but that’s one act we’d all be better off not seeing.
After two years of a split government, Youngkin hoped to finally walk away with a state legislature unified under Republican control. A unified government would have freed him to tackle campaign promises on public safety and parental rights that Democrats had stymied the past two years. It would have also supercharged his political capital, highlighting his influence down-ballot and making him a top contender on the national scene, if and when he ever decided to enter the fray.
Yet that didn’t materialize. Instead, Democrats retained their majority in the state Senate and flipped control of the House of Delegates. Youngkin will now have his hands tied for the rest of his term. Whatever political capital he may have gained from his upset has fizzled, engendering more skepticism than momentum.
In normal times, a divided government might not be such a bad thing. It would force Democrats to moderate, and for both sides to find common ground. Yet Democrats soared to victory largely on a wave of abortion fear mongering, and are unlikely to tone down the hysteria with a presidential election now less than a year out. The swarms of D.C. bureaucrats now deciding elections in tiny Northern Virginia suburbs are unable to resist any expansion in progressive sensibilities. Meanwhile, party leadership reveals the inmates have taken control of the asylum.
Virginia is taken over by Terrorists !!!! ( Demon-crats ) !!!!!