Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

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It brings me no pleasure to note that Carter is dating the chair of Rose Caucus. Good dude who I will support if he runs, but probably not getting the most strategic advice here.

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Carter gets into arguments with randos on Twitter and sics his followers on them. It’s so embarrassing for a state legislator to act like that.

That's called owning the libs! He's great.

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate who won't commit to repealing right-to-work despite having a Dem trifecta is... not the way forward. This isn't even necessarily an ideological point — we've seen that on-the-ground organizing carried out through unions can be a key component of any victory this cycle, with narrow wins in AZ & NV that basically pivoted on the work of UNITE HERE. Supporting right-to-work is not just bad policy, it's deliberately handicapping your ability to produce votes.

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Virginia and the Democratic Party will be much better off once he's officially out of office.

Definitely will not be — you should google the lady who's replacing him!

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Add Carter to a growing list of DemSoc failures.

Update: 2.8% LMAO

The Biden Administration will be the death of the progressive left, for better or worse.

Carter's local DSA chapter declined to endorse him. His bid was a one-man vanity project.

Virginia and the Democratic Party will be much better off once he's officially out of office.

Definitely will not be — you should google the lady who's replacing him!

What's wrong with her? She seems pretty progressive from what I know so far.

She runs a "mindfulness-centered" leadership training firm. It doesn’t signal bad politics (though there’s certainly a correlation), but it’s the sort of cringey HR-ified cultural liberalism that this forum seems to dislike.