It’s possible to win some battles even while retreating. The GOP demonstrated that fact last night when they won the VA governor race for the first time in twelve years.
For beleaguered Conservatives who’d been taking body blows since this time last year, the victory finally gave them something to celebrate. The democrats seemed poised to sweep away all opposition, so even stalling their onslaught in one state was given outsized significance.
Taking the time to claim and enjoy victory is important, especially for elements of what is now the counterculture. The outpouring of Liberal salt added savor to the win. Nobody can say it wasn’t a lot of fun. Indeed, Virginia politics exemplifies kabuki theater, complete with face paint.
Yet the thrill of election night must give way as its political effects take shape. Conservatives get a chuckle over Leftists’ claims to be the reality-based community, but they only have room to laugh if they can soberly face the truth.
Hard as it is to accept, the truth is that we’d be better off long-term if McAuliffe had won.
Facts don’t care about feelings, so put your emotions in your back pocket and look at outcomes.
Terry McAuliffe is an associate of the Clinton machine. Glenn Youngkin is a Bush family stooge from the Carlyle Group. Since the Obama faction installed their puppet a year ago, the High Party has been purging Clinton holdovers. Whereas the Clinton family governed like Southern style political bosses out to line their pockets from the public till, the Death Cult behind Obama is bent on remaking America in their image. Hence all the Great Reset talk.
Last night’s election replaced a lukewarm Clintonista with a pliant Con Inc. chair warmer from the financial class. The Cult knows he’ll do nothing to impede their woke agenda and will be easily defeated next time.
Before anyone objects that Youngkin promised to ban CRT in schools, consider the woke language his campaign embraced.
Youngkin’s win has dismaying implications for the future of the republican party–in that it reenergizes a zombie corpse long overdue for the grave. Trump’s supporters are wont to absolve his failure to govern by playing up how he changed the GOP forever. This victory by a GOPe candidate who distanced himself from Trump suggests that “forever” meant “five years.” The republican party will take all the wrong lessons from Youngkin’s win.
Like the Bourbon dynasty, Conservatives can be counted on to remember everything but learn nothing. The normiecons cheering Youngkin’s victory forget 1994 and 2010, when republicans regained commanding majorities yet failed to advance a Conservative agenda. Many think the Woke tide was turned back in Virginia last night, but taking the long view reveals it as a minor uptick in a long downward trend.
The Death Cult needn’t fret. Youngkin will sponsor a flaccid CRT ban which county and city officials will ignore. Changing demographics, aided by vote fraud, will oust him in the next cycle. Meanwhile, rank-and-file republicans will continue legitimizing a corrupt system with their votes.
This outcome is of such benefit to the Death Cult, it’s easy to suspect the more level heads among their elders of planning it. Or at least printing fewer mail-in ballots in order to allow it.
For today, enjoy the Woke Cult’s crying over their bloody lip. Going forward, remember that you can’t fix a broken system by voting for people who hate you.
I saw what Youngkin’s “platform” was and I’m struggling to see what the difference was aside from switching from a D to an R. Then I saw members of both sides of the aisle seethe and gloat over it. Now I understand why some people are downing their pills again.
It’s cute that they still think they’re going to vote their way out of their problems, though.
All they did was replace Donna Shalala with Mitt Romney.
I remember when Scott Brown won in Massachusetts and the pro-life industry all went ablaze about the unbelievably huge importance of the win. This despite Brown’s position on abortion being “it’s a fundamental right, but probably we shouldn’t kill babies right after birth and maybe churches and unrelated parties shouldn’t be forced to pay for it.” But what his actual positions were or what he was actually going to do didn’t matter, what mattered was how long it had been since a Republican had gotten voted for in MA!
Anti-Republican pulp anthology when?
Can we count on neocons and GOP to save us? Of course not. But this election did further expose the tendrils of the Death Cult. People are resisting. Homesteads, parallel economies, and local governments are uniting and strengthening. I’m still optimistic.
The local races are the real story. A truck driver who spent a couple hundred bucks on his run is poised to unseat a longstanding democrat incumbent. The VA election will have far less effect on people’s daily lives, but it gets all the attention.
Brian
Do you view the possible New Jersey upset as more seismic than Virgina?
If do, what will the Death cult do?
xavier
Neither matters.
Brian
We’re not voting our way out. Got it.
Thanks.
xavier
It’s almost like there’s an inverse relationship between the amount of attention Con, Inc. pays to a race and its actual significance. It’s impossible to miss the way Instapundit and related PJMedia blogs are taking victory laps over Virginia. It’s good that school boards are getting an earful on CRT, and better that Garland went full JBT about it, but the parents should be pulling their kids out, not just trying to rein their school boards in. Bless their hearts.
Another thing worth pointing out, even though there doesn’t seem to be any 3:00 AM ‘fortifying’ of VA, there is very much ‘fortifying’ going on New Jersey. And completely unsurprising development, the Washington Generals is letting it happen. Which certainly lends credence VA is according to plan.
The pundit griftercons are taking the line “Sure we may not win New Jersey, but it’s a big enough victory anyway because no one even expected it to be close!” That SHOULD be all the more reason to stop the fraud there at all costs, but in typical Washington Generals fashion it is instead being used to tell the base that the fight is already over since we “won in principle.”
Once, I wouldn’t have been cynical enough to entertain the idea of a backroom deal between Team Red and Team Blue.
“OK, we’ll throw VA if you throw NJ.”
Once …
“The republican party will take all the wrong lessons from Youngkin’s win.”
Yep. The lesson will be ” see, a squish who runs away from Trump is the way to win!”. The real lesson is that if you can show normies how the death cult is directly effecting their (and their children’s) lives, sometimes they will get pissed enough to vote against the cult. Sometimes, and they usually lose the anger by the next election cycle.
I admit that not having Trump around helped in VA in the sense that his absence denied the Cult the distraction they really needed. Instead, the Cult had to (temporarily at least) answer for their mistakes. Suburban moms may not care for Trump’s mean tweets, but they would really prefer to be able to drop little Sally of to school without having to worry about her being sodomized in the little girls room by some predator in a skirt. They may still end up having to worry about such things, but at least they’ve been warned about how little the Cult cares.
As to this being the end of the Clinton era, I would have to agree. I also agree that this is not really a good thing. The Clintons (Bill anyway) followed the political weather and headed in the direction they thought would be most profitable. This new group are true believers who won’t let reality get in the way of the Cult’s dreams. That makes them dangerous. At least crooks can be counted on to work in their own best interest.
Ah this written in the alternate universe where the mainstream media thinks Trump had nothing to do with this. In the real universe they were screaming his name every chance they get.