Can it be? Is there still hope after all?
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I don't think Youngkin winning last night/this morning is a whitepill just because it means an establishment GOP guy (albeit a pretty smart one who knows how to campaign) managed to defeat a major Clinton operative. That it was this close to begin with even after McAuliffe basically argued that the state should own your kids, be free to teach them hate & allow protected groups to literally assrape them with abandon, is a pity. I don't even think the Republicans mopping up the downballot races & retaking the VA House of Delegates is the key part either, although it's also certainly nice & an improvement over the alternative. Nor is it that Youngkin seems to have found the blueprint for a winning strategy in 2022 (a Trump Lite campaign that can thread the needle between the actual MAGA crowd and much squishier suburban voters), although that's nice too.
What really makes me happy is the level of grassroots engagement that went into this election. I've read over on Patriots.win that 90% of the poll watcher positions in Fairfax were snapped up, and elsewhere that the Virginia Project fought tirelessly to mobilize volunteers alongside the state GOP. Little wonder then that I happily woke up this morning to McAuliffe's concession rather than news of a fifteenth-hour ballot drop or fifty to pull McAuliffe up over Youngkin while everyone went to bed, as I had feared up until NBC and a bunch of other outlets started throwing in the towel. Looks like that might just be the ticket, or at least a very important part thereof, to beating future election fortification - grassroots engagement on such a scale that the Swamp dares not steal elections in its heartland.
Now I just hope it's not too much to ask for Youngkin to not only knock it out of the park on education, but also to start taking notes from DeSantis on how to secure Virginian elections going forward.
It doesn’t fix everything overnight and doesn’t reverse VA back into solid red land, but what it means is that the state (hopefully) won’t fall into further Rona restrictions come this winter along with stalling most of the prog golden geese like CRT & gun control. Also something that hasn’t been brought up is there was a a 3rd party candidate under the “Liberation” party that also helped scoop votes away from the libs because they took the most hardcore leftist elements from BLM and made their own party. I hope this sticks and we can unfuck some shit here But it’s a glimmer of hope in a state I feel is lost
They won't be able to reverse any nonsense the leftists have imposed over the last decade or so unless and until they retake the state senate in 2023. That house is still controlled by Democraps because it wasn't up for reelection this year.
I'm eh about a GOP guy winning but I am really enjoying the DNC losing.
Seriously. It's fucking INSANE that a guy telling them he views their children as property of democrats only loses by 1.6%
You'd think a statement like that would swing a third of the population away from you, but no. It just barely shifts things.
I continue to believe that there is ultimately no political solution to what is going on. The only way I can see the US avoid civil war is if there's a war with china to unite the population against an outside threat.
Yes, he did. Youngkin's victory was possible due to the support of suburban white women and Hispanics.
Women are the largest voting block in American politics and Hispanics are the fastest growing population (As McAuliffe himself acknowleged when he exhorted them to get busy and make more voters).
Trump has done better with both of these demographics than your traditional Republican.
And he can do even better as the discontent of both of these groups grows, as seen in VA and CA's recall election.
If you've already cheated a big pot in poker, you cannot keep it up because even the donkey at the table will figure it out and you're likely to get shot.
Apparently Democrats were sending out leaflets like this. Why would they push out what is effectively a pro-Youngkin pro-Trump advertisement? Sure, believing your own propaganda is one of the hazards of handling it, but they knew, especially after 2016, that the public facing suppression polls are not the real numbers. That ad only makes sense if they truly believe people would reject him for Trump's endorsement alone.
Youngkin is in on the fix. Democrats having control over fraudulent elections is great, but they can't sweep everything because there will be no one to blame. See how the Flint water problem was twisted into a Republican problem and not the shitty Democrat leadership that actually caused it. So he got a "bye" and gets to live in the Gov. mansion for a bit and enjoy what little amount of power they'll let him play with.
Still better than a Democrat. You can get uniparty/RINOs to do ok if the people make their demands clear enough. Look at retarded hick cunt Kay Ivey, for example. She knew she'd be in trouble if she kept with the covid retardations. I mean, she still is, she's definitely about to get the boot in 2022 because of all this, but she realized everyone was over it now and she was forced to lift restrictions.
He's a RINO.
proof