LOL. Keep blaming your failed, losing ways on….racism. Of course, given the intellectual limitations of the Woke crowd, they don’t really have anything else to bring to the table. Just more accusations of the same old, tired ad hominem attacks.
If the Radical Left thinks this is the explanation for their humiliation and complete collapse in Virginia, and they continute to control the Democratic Party, it’s going to be fun watching them lose their minds in 2022.
And then there is this:
Democrats “should own the suburbs,” Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the House of Delegates who attended the watch party, told us. “I don’t know why they don’t … Republicans did not run a moderate campaign.”
Duh. Democrats have become radical Leftists who don’t even believe that inflation is a serious problem.
Shadow To Light 
They really do live in a completely different reality where masculinity really is toxic, racism really is behind every tree and under every rock, COVID really is the New Black Death, endless spending really is cost free, etc., etc., etc.
They’re so utterly detached as elitists that they can’t even identify with affluent liberal suburbanites. That’s a scary level of radicalism.
> Never underestimate white rage, racial anxiety and right wing disinformation…
To an ideologue, equipped with the intellectual equivalent of a hammer, and only that hammer, all solutions to a problem or “problem” involved hammering. If the problem doesn’t go away, the only solution available is to hammer harder. Subtlety, nuance and the use of more suitable, more appropriate intellectual tools is not possible when everything is stretched or chopped or imagined into being a nail.
These people have gone so far down the rabbit hole of self-actualisation, trying to discover their ‘true’ inner selves, that they seem to genuinely believe their emotions accurately reflect or can even shape some external reality. Not only that but they will violently seek to destroy anyone who challenges or gets in the way of their ‘journey’ of self-discovery.
==”Democrats “should own the [the very people their policies are designed to tax into oblivion],” Suhas Subramanyam, a member of the House of Delegates who attended the watch party, told us. “I don’t know why they don’t … Republicans did not run a [‘We Hate You And Wand You Dead, So You’d Better Vote For Us’] campaign.” “==
There: fixed it for him.
Dhay: ==?To an ideologue, equipped with the intellectual equivalent of a hammer, and only that hammer, all solutions to a problem or “problem” involved hammering. If the problem doesn’t go away, the only solution available is to hammer harder. …“==
You imply that there exist things other than nails! Have you no shame?
A lot of people are following their pre-conceived notions as to why Youngkin won in Virginia. Most likely, Youngkin won because he accepted Trump’s support but didn’t embrace Trump. Accepting Trump’s support got the Republican base out. Not embracing Trump means that Youngkin managed not to scare away moderate suburban voters.
On the other side, McAuliffe is already about as exciting as berber carpet and beige walls. And then his remark about parents not having a say in education was an unforced error. Youngkin’s team tied it around McAuliffe’s neck and rode it to victory.
An error known as, “saying the quiet part out loud.” People get cocky like that when they think they own the show.
AOC disagrees with pennywit: she thinks that McAuliffe lost because his campaign wasn’t anywhere near radical enough to energise the Progressive base. She says, “the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign.”
The mainstream media also disagrees with pennywit. Their analysis of the problem: the Republican won because America is racist, and he ran a racist campaign which appeals to those racists.
AOC is right a little bit, but she’s wrong a lot.
She’s right (a little bit) in that people Democrats don’t have any liberal triumphs to show the votes — there’s been quite a bit of inaction. The lack of action makes Democrats look ineffective. So there’s little to motivate the Democratic base (which wants left-wing policies enacted) and there’s very little record of achievement to present to moderates as a record of effectiveness.
However, AOC is deeply wrong because she also doesn’t take into account Virginia’s electorate. Northern Virginia, densely populated, trends leftward, but (except for Alexandria) not extremely leftward. The rest of Northern Virginia is suburbs — moderate to moderate left, with a hefty dose of “please don’t rock the boat.”
Tidewater trends rightward in in large part due to the military presence there, while Southside and Southwest Virginia are hard right. Central Virginia is moderate-ish to moderate-ish left, depending on where you are.
The key to winning elections in Virginia and governing effectively is to work from the center. Bob McDonnell, for example, had a hard-right pedigree. But when he got to the governor’s office, he governed from the center-right, in part because small-business owners from Northern Virginia were an essential part of his coalition. Ken Cuccinnelli, the 2013 Republican candidate for governor, ran a hard-right campaign and lost.
Oh, yes. Racism/race was a factor in the election. Always is. But it wasn’t the factor.
A lot of people are following their pre-conceived notions as to why Youngkin won in Virginia. Most likely, Youngkin won because he accepted Trump’s support but didn’t embrace Trump. Accepting Trump’s support got the Republican base out. Not embracing Trump means that Youngkin managed not to scare away moderate suburban voters.
I can agree with this. But keep in mind that its not just the Virginia governor race that blew up in the Dems face:
My election-night prediction on how lefties would spin the results: “Unless McAuliffe wins easily, which he won’t, they’ll claim that his defeat or narrow victory is evidence that lefty voters are demoralized and will remain so until congressional Dems go big on spending.”Watch this clip and bear in mind that she’s talking about a cycle in which (a) the socialist who won the Democratic primary for mayor in Buffalo lost the general election to a write-in candidate; (b) the hyper-powerful Democratic president of New Jersey’s state senate lost to a Republican truck driver who spent $153 on his campaign; and (c) George Floyd’s hometown easily defeated a ballot initiative to replace the police department with a “public safety” agency.
And then there is this:
Is it true that a candidate more progressive than Terry McAuliffe would have animated progressives in Virginia more? Sure, probably. Is it also true that that would have ceded even more of the middle to Glenn Youngkin, making his attacks on Critical Race Theory and other leftist excesses that much more potent? Almost certainly. For all of AOC’s grumbling about demoralized lefties, McAuliffe actually improved on Ralph Northam’s vote total from 2017. Northam notched a shade over 1.4 million votes; McAuliffe fell just shy of 1.6 million. He would have won easily if not for the enormous surge in Republican support, from around 1.2 million four years ago to 1.67 million on Tuesday night.
“Oh, yes. Racism/race was a factor in the election. Always is.”
Really? Then show your work.