How Republicans Surrendered Virginia To Left-Wing Colonizers
Stella Morabito
Virginia Democrats are swooning over the prospect of wiping out congressional representation for the overwhelming majority of Republicans in the state if voters pass their April 21 gerrymandering referendum. As I wrote here at The Federalist, that ballot question drips with contempt for rural voters as well as the “democracy” Democrats pretend to care about.
How did things change so fast? What’s behind Democrats’ cockiness to behave with impunity like Soviet apparatchiks? Normal Americans are still scratching their heads over the outcome of Virginia’s 2025 election that handed over the governorship and a massive statehouse majority to the Democrats. They especially wonder how Jay Jones easily won his election for state attorney general despite openly fantasizing about the murder of his Republican colleague and two young children. Not long ago, such creepiness would have totally collapsed any American candidate’s campaign.
We can attribute a lot of this current insanity to the usual suspects: a coarsening of the culture, the dumbing down of the electorate, the lackluster campaign of the Republican gubernatorial candidate, and probably a certain degree of election rigging enabled by some 45 days of early voting, mail-in voting, and ballot harvesting.
But let’s look more deeply at a few other factors that have led Virginia to this point. They include out-of-state money, anemic GOP candidate recruitment, apathy toward local elections, and emotion-laden propaganda.
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