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Youngkin neither wanted nor needed Trump.
What About Turnout?
In 2020 many Republicans stayed home knowing Trump would lose. High election day turnout suggests the opposite.
Rethinking Turnout
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“Condolences to VA on becoming radically racist again according to the media…by electing by electing a black female lieutenant governor and a Cuban-American attorney general, rejecting racial essentialism in schools, and replacing a Dem governor who wore an actual KKK outfit.”
Minneapolis Voters Resoundingly Reject Measure End Police
NPR reports Minneapolis voters reject a measure to replace the city’s police department
Approximately 57% of voters rejected a ballot question that would have removed the Minneapolis Police Department from the city charter, replacing it with a “public-health oriented” Department of Public Safety.
Nationally, the vote was seen as a test of the political movement to “defund” traditional policing, as it ran up against concerns about rising violent crime.
Backlash in San Francisco
MSN reports Even in San Francisco, Progressives are Seeing a Backlash.
Parents are outraged by the state of public education. Citizens are tired of property crime and theft. Their combined frustration has turned San Francisco into an unlikely sign of where American politics is heading as the congressional midterms near.
Grim conditions on the city’s streets led voters, late last month, to resoundingly endorse a recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who will face an election sometime next year.
Also headed to a recall are three members of the San Francisco Board of Education: Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga. Parents charge that they didn’t do enough to open schools during the pandemic while devoting months to a contentious and ultimately failed attempt to rename schools that had been named after purportedly objectionable figures like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
“Our school board chose to put ideology over the needs of students,” a local Democratic political operative, Joel P. Engardio, recently wrote on his website to explain why he wanted a school board focused on the basics of education, not the abstract notions of social change some progressives say are at least as important as those basics.
Progressives “haven’t made a case for their perspective,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political scientist at the University of Southern California and a longtime observer of the state’s complex politics, in an interview with Yahoo News. “I am knocked back on my heels by what I am seeing these days.”
538 Comments
It’s really fascinating how critical race theory and education issues writ large have become huge issues in the Virginia governor’s race. I thought it was interesting enough that Youngkin pledged to ban CRT in schools on his first day in office, if elected, but recent reporting suggests that Republicans elsewhere are playing off of conservative parent’s fears, too. According to the Associated Press, which cited data from Ballotpedia, there are 76 school districts in 22 states where candidates took a stance on either race in education or critical race theory. I wonder some of these races — Virginia especially — will test the extent to which these fights really animate voters? I could see Republicans during the midterms really doubling-down on this strategy of attacking CRT if Youngkin is successful tonight.
Unreal Comments
- MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Claims Critical Race Theory ‘Isn’t Real’ as Disappointing McAuliffe Results Come In
- CNN’s Van Jones calls Glenn Youngkin a ‘delta variant of Trumpism’
CRT isn’t real. What a hoot.
Congratulations to Glenn Youngkin for his well-deserved victory over CRT in Virginia.
Republican Majority in Virginia
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resoundingly endorse a recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who
will face an election sometime next year.”
There is nothing good that can be seen for Democrats in
these deep blue areas turning red. It is not a one-off and is a rejection of
the woke philosophy and mindset which dominates the Democrat Party except for a
few, very few holdouts. After this I do not expect the Democrats to moderate,
they will double down not realizing that their message is revolting to most
people. Throwing more money into the election is as about as effective as celebrity
endorsements. They cannot overcome a flawed perspective.
Slave Act of 1850. It made something that before was an abstraction into a deeply personal reality by forcing them by law to become complicit with a social institution they detested. The
consensus solidifies into the attitude that you cannot treat with these people.
The Democrat Party will perhaps go the way of the Whigs and for the same reasons, incompatibility
between the members making the Democrat “big tent” no longer possible.