Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

[Lemmiwinks]

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).  

Nowhere near as surprising as that was.

[Lemmiwinks]

I don't think this isn't solely backlash to CRT but to overall wokeness taking over. We'll see if it dies does down which I think it does

Agreed. “Cancel culture” is more relevant here. It’s real, and is something a lot of people are sick of.

[Lemmiwinks]

This really proves Republicans have literally nothing to fear from expanding voter access.   Virginia enacted AVR, expanded early in person voting and made absentee voting no excuse, along with a host of other initiatives (drop off locations, sunday voting, etc) and the Republicans still won without trouble.

The GOP's obsession with voter suppression is really pointless IMO.   It worked back in the Pre-Trump days, now it's useless for them.

It’s also the first decisive win the GOP has had in five years, so hopefully they cool it on the stolen election conspiracy theories too.