Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

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Look on the bright side. At least Mark Warner isn't going to be the VP candidate in 2024.

In all seriousness though, while this is bad for Virginia, I'm more worried about the fact that this will set us back and the "ban mentioning racism at school" crowd will be emboldened nationwide.

I don't think this changes anything about how I view 2022. Obviously 2022 will be tough no matter what, but a lot of what happened here is because of idiosyncratic issues, 2021-specific issues, and McAuliffe running a bad campaign. Yes, I'm not extremely optimistic about the midterms, but not because of this.

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The fact that red avatars are denying that Democrats had pro-CRT messaging instead of thinking that maybe Democrats should actually speak out against CRT is telling.

I think dems should tone down some things but if people actually think thats CRT I have a bridge to sell them......

Are you two seriously arguing about "CRT" as if it's something that has a concrete definition?

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So for my Atlas peeps who were politically aware at the time (instead of being a dumb 15-year old who was more concerned with how skinny her jeans were...):

How does this compare to, say, Scott Brown's special election upset in Massachusetts? I do recall commentators heralding that as a pure rejection of Obama (as many will likely say this was a rejection of Biden).  

I was fourteen but I lived in Massachusetts and I paid some attention to the race. I don't think the comparison makes sense. A Republican winning a gubernatorial race in a mildly Democratic state is very different from a Republican winning a Senate election in an extremely Democratic state. That said, Scott Brown succeeded because of how non-nationalized the race was. If it was purely a referendum on Obama and national Democrats, Coakley would be in the Senate instead of Warren.

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Something democrats don’t get is : Responding to the CRT debate by saying but it isn’t taught in public schools is ok if it isn’t then why are you guys getting so worked up by opposing candidates saying they will ban it . If it isn’t being taught than that ban shouldn’t change a thing right .

What is there to ban?   You want to erase certain history lessons or something?  It's not like CRT is a uniform textualized program outside of maybe law school. 

Outlaw any claim that racial "privilege" is true

So teachers should be forced to lie to students.

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I predicted 2020 GA Dem Sweep, 2021 VA Flip, and 2021 NJ Flip, I'm the betting odds God of Atlas.

AMA.

Did you predict all of those at the same time? If not, that's not that impressive (and NJ is still wrong).