Republicans never win elections. Not really. They benefit from “gerrymandering” or Russian gremlins, or those pesky “structural” advantages of the Constitution. Voters may be too dumb to know what’s good for them, or maybe they’ve been duped by big-monied interests and “misinformation.” And so it goes with Glenn Youngkin, the first Republican to win a statewide race in Virginia in more than a decade.
Youngkin, like any successful politician, focused predominantly on what was bothering voters. And foremost in the minds of many voters in purple-state Virginia in 2021 was the authoritarian-inclined technocrats who had exploited the pandemic to run the state by diktat. Enough voters were angered by the irrational closing of schools, the immoral masking of children, and the teaching of transgender ideology and divisive, racist pseudohistory and theories, that Youngkin narrowly won, and the GOP took back the state legislature. Once-cheery moms and dads were fed up with anti-choice ideologues who run the teachers’ unions and with candidates who believe that parents should not be telling schools what to teach.
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