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It's a sad commentary on the state of journalism today that I am so thrilled by the facts that Mr. Taibbi (1) has talked to multiple parties on the ground in VA to try to understand what is going on (2) is wary of publishing an over-simplified story and - 24 hour news cycle be damned! - tells his readership that a more fulsome account is forthcoming, after he's had more time to marshal his information, and (3) needs to return to VA to confirm various details. God bless investigative journalists, the kind that care about getting facts straight as opposed to advancing a simplistic narrative, and thank you Matt Taibbi!

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"Vote for us, you racists!" Somehow it didn't work.

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Telling parents that they should have no say in what their kids are learning at school was the death of Terry McAuliffe. Even all the Democrat heavy weights could not save him. Unfortunatley, Terry forgot who employed him……it was those parents. Politicians need to back up and remember who pays their wages.

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Without Trump, I’m not sure calling every white person a racist and white supremacist is going to continue to work as a way of shutting down all debate.

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Democrats need Trump more than Republicans do.

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Is this really more complicated than taking the culture war too far? When you make EVERYTHING about kneeling at the altar of either extremist racial or sexual identity ideology, those ideas eventually become policies when you gain power. So, BLM actually morphs into gutted out and demoralized police departments, which produces significant increases in crime. Who cares what you call it (ok, it is technically not CRT) the obsession with implementing a bunch of D&I programs that include extreme sensitivity policies re: trans rights eventually gets a couple of 15 year-olds raped.

So, when these are just ideas, the Woke crowd can say implementing their insane ideas will lead to utopia vs. disaster. However, as they actually implement those ideas, the dream of living inside a John Lennon song quickly becomes Molly Hatchet reality.

The simple truth is that all of their ideas only work in the lab, on a CNN panel or in a stump speech, not in the cold hard world we really live in.

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How does the race baiting square with the fact that the Lt. Governor race saw 3.3 million or 99.90% of the total, go to two women of color with immigrant backgrounds? The winner, Winsome Sears is a black woman born in Jamaica. Ms. Sears is a Republican and received almost as many votes as Youngkin, with a higher percentage of votes cast in her race.

Apparently the same 'racists' that voted for Youngkin, also voted for a black woman. How do you square that?

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What really happened in Loudon County, however complex it may be, couldn't have swung the election, though. It's the perception of what happened, statewide, that swung the election.

And overall, the impression was of arrogant ideologues doing whatever they pleased at the expense of kids and Terry McAuliffe indulging them.

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F*** Joe Biden !!

Julian Assange shouldn’t be released from the dank chambers of Belmarsh Prison because the CIA contemplated assassinating him. He shouldn’t be released because a key witness against him admitted to fabricating his deposition.

He should be released because he didn’t commit the crime for which he is charged and a country that treats journalism as a crime against the state shouldn’t have legal standing to bring extradition requests in the courts of nations that consider themselves democracies.

In summary and once again – F*** Joe Biden !!

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"Also complicating the “Lee Atwater” narrative is the role of Asian and South Asian parents in yesterday’s results. “A lot of immigrant families came here specifically for the school system,” is how one Indian-American parent put it to me yesterday."

Yup, can confirm. When you start messing with education, you will get thrashed by Indians and East Asians. Parents immigrated from South India in the 1980s: they tend toward being liberal (because they're college educated and not working class), but have never been loyalists to the the Democrats. Strong family and good education come first, always.

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“The GOP ran a master class on race-based identity politics,” wrote CNN’s Bakari Sellers. “The return of the Lee Atwater playbook. Pretty grim,” is how former Harry Reid chief of staff Adam Jentleson put it. “Hats off to the depraved cynicism and villainy and race baiting. It worked in Virginia,” seethed Wajahat Ali of The Daily Beast. Van Jones last night called Youngkin the “Delta variant of Trumpism.”

Exhibits A, B, C, and D for the prosecution in the case against the ongoing relevance of the Main Stream Media. The have richly earned their irrelevance.

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"Republican race-baiting" seems to have helped drive Winsome Sears to a historic victory.

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Huh. I guess people don't dig tyranny.

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All hail Christopher Rufo!

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Big city liberal elites (the donor class) and urban educated single childless social justice cat people are gonna vote for the most left of everything every time. What got Biden elected in 2020 (other than Pandemic-related election shenanigans) was the moderate suburban family voter who had been made to scream "make it stop" over all the vitriolic media-political chatter that they assumed Trump was responsible for. Not only did it NOT stop after Biden was elected, it has grown in scope, volume and nastiness.

In addition, the Democrats... only hanging onto majority power by a thread, have gone about governing like they have a super-majority and mandate to impose a far left agenda and totalitarian control. Voters really don't like that... they expect their politicians to work with the other side not push a one-sided agenda.... especially when they hold a very thin majority.

These shifts by the suburban voters that elected Glenn Youngkin are not trivial because they point to a sticky voter epiphany resulting in negative branding the Democrat party in general. It wasn't Trump after all causing all the freaking out... it was the actual strategy of the Democrats to foment emotional turmoil and social chaos so that the Great Reset would rise from the ashes. Not only has that been subtly telegraphed over time, but Democrats have grown so brazen with their corporate media cover that they just admit it all now.

Now the voters see it... and it is a terrible situation for the Democrat machine. It is so terrible that another Trump run isn't going to provide the same Democrat advantage to contrast it's own image against Orange Man Bad. The picture is "Blue Man is More Bad".

Voters really don't like hypocrites. They also don't like highly charged political hyperbole. Lastly, they want leaders that work to calm everyone the *F* down... and certainly don't like it when the leaders are responsible for CAUSING the raging of lunacy we see.

One move to stop the slide downhill is to admit that Jan 6 was a Constitutionally-protected protest with civil disobedience that was much less in scope and violence than what the Democrats and left have consistently demonstrated and supported over the last 4 years. Another move would be to admit that the American media is corrupted with left bias and big tech is censoring right-leaning content and promoting left-leaning content. Lastly, admit that our American campuses are hives for postmodernist collectivist indoctrination that isn't connected to true scholarship and support reforms to get that crap out of the education system.

But don't hold your breath. And because these things are unlikely, the Democrats will continue their downhill slide with center-left and center-right voters who don't support extremism.

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As deluded as Democrats seem to be, surely it didn't help his prospects that McAuliffe was the picture of venality, and a long time servant and bag-man for the Clinton's. Perhaps his greatest service will be to ring in the curtain on that sorry crew.

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