What an absolutely huge win this was for us yesterday — not just the election in Virginia, which was huge in itself —but the tightness of the race in New Jersey. And then there are other important referendums and races around the country all pointing in the same direction.
Let's start with Virginia, a blue state that hasn't gone Republican since 2009, where a strong Terry McAuliffe was backed by the full power of the Democratic establishment — Obama, Biden, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams — everybody kind of going to the wheel for this guy. It seemed to be tight at the very end, but look at the way that Youngkin pulled this off.
He pulled it off by winning the Trump base but he also pulled it off by winning over suburban voters, he won some Biden voters, and even in places that are deep red — the southern part of Virginia, Lee County way down south — which went heavily for Trump, went even more heavily for Youngkin.
This is great news going forward. It shows us in a sense the formula for beating the Democrats and it's just such a huge relief. I woke up this morning, I was looking in the mirror, and I thought, "I look a year younger." It wasn't just jubilation over the outcome, it's also just the sense that we've been suffering a little bit of PTSD, our side, going back to the 2020 election.
It wasn't just the election, it was the fact that you couldn't talk about the election, the fact that the censorship that prevented our side from communicating with each other. Then there's the radicalism of the Biden agenda, the open border, the almost deliberate botching of Afghanistan. And then the crazy behavior by these Biden people, I mean, they're acting like they have some massive FDR majorities. "Let's pass this $1.5 trillion bill and a $3.5 trillion bill, let's get the Green New Deal." So, in a sense, the question in the back of my mind, my wife's mind too, is are the American people okay with all of this? Because, dismayingly, if the American people are okay with all of this, then our enemy isn't the Left; it isn't the Democrats, it's the American people. The American people are ratifying this radical change, this repudiation of traditional America, this assault on our values, this transformation of our country — the realization of the Obama agenda — the American people are doing it.
But phew, no.
What a great test case of a blue-state — moderately leaning blue — that basically gives a giant "up yours" to the Biden administration. This is fantastic news.
Of course, MSNBC was in kind of full meltdown mode. Nicolle Wallace, trying to get her little pea brain around the result, said, "I think that the real ominous thing is that Critical Race Theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection-endorsed Republican."
That's delightful.
So basically to her, Youngkin is a Trump clone, an insurrectionist apologist. This shows that these people have no capacity to digest bad news, no capacity to adapt to it, no capacity to look at the world realistically. It isn't just Nicolle Wallace, though. Right before the election, Obama said, "We don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture wars." Apparently, Obama's really out of time. He's so busy. He has no time to talk about things like Critical Race Theory or transgender bathrooms. For him, it's all a big waste of time. We've got real problems to solve here so Obama's rolling up his sleeves to solve them.
Well, I think the people of Virginia decided to send him a big message.
Let's look around the country. In New Jersey so far, it's a tie between Ciattarelli and Murphy. I think this could go either way. There's some apparently blue votes that are not counted, but even if Murphy pulls it off, I mean, New Jersey is to the left of Virginia. This is a blue-blue state and the question for the Democrats is if they're tying in a blue state, what does that tell you? What are the implications of that?
Let's look at Texas. In San Antonio, where Biden won by 14 points, 73 percent Hispanic, Republican John Lujan was just elected to the Texas House of Representatives winning an open seat that has been a long-time seat held by Democrats.
In Minneapolis, there was the referendum on whether or not to the replace the police force. This is kind of the Ilhan Omar get rid of the police, replace the police with a department of public safety agenda. Remember all this talk on the Left about reimagining the police system? Well, Minneapolis voters soundly rejected that proposal. They'd rather, if something goes wrong, have the police show up than some social worker. "May I interview the person who did this? May I try to figure out what their social problems are?"
We're seeing here, not just in Virginia, but across the country a repudiation, let's call it a great reset. It's almost like the country's taking note, the tide has turned, and it's gratifying for us. It shows us that our instinct that all of this craziness, that the Biden people are out of line, is now being seconded by the American people.
The malaise of the first part of 2021 is beginning to dissipate. Some of us were beginning to feel that we were really losing our country and that the American people, if they were not okay with it, seemed indifferent to it. But on Tuesday, the American people have basically said, "Don't count us out yet."