Andrew Allis, Granville

Tuesday’s stunning and landmark victory for Republican Glenn Youngkin over former Democrat governor Terry McAuliffe in the gubernatorial race in the decidedly blue state of Virginia was a clear and resounding repudiation of wokeism, the Biden agenda, the progressive indoctrination taking place in its K-12 schools, the use of the race card in politics, and a bellwether for the 2022 mid-term elections. Even more astounding is the Governor’s race in the deep blue state of New Jersey which, at the time of the writing of this letter on the morning after Tuesday’s elections, remains a virtual dead heat between Democrat Governor Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli. Regardless of the eventual outcome there, the race being this close is devastating news for a party already internally divided, the far left pitted against the so-called more “moderate” Democrats.

In Virginia the economy and education were the top issues on voter’s minds, according to exit polling, with two-thirds of Virginians saying the country as a whole is heading in the wrong direction and that they disapprove of Biden’s deleterious fiscal policies. Loudoun County Virginia made national news as parents stood up to divisive racist theory being taught in the public schools at tumultuous and televised school board meetings. Although the left leaning school board quibbled over terminology, the semantics of the term CRT, the material teaching systemic racism, white privilege, white guilt, intersectionality, equity (not to be confused equality, but socialistic guaranteed outcome), the radical LBGT+ agenda complete with pornographic illustrations, along with the promotion of transgenderism and anti-police propaganda was undeniable as parents produced the evidence and held it up in front of school officials at their meetings. It was hard to convince those parents not to believe their lying eyes, but rather to trust the school board’s assurances none of this was being taught in the schools.

The death knell for the Democrat incumbent governor came when in both a debate with Youngkin, and in subsequent statements, he doubled and tripled down on his belief that parents should have no say in what public schools (paid by the taxpayers, i.e. parents) teach their own children. This united independents and many Democrat parents against the Marxist notion that the state, not the parents, has the exclusive right to your own children’s education, or in this case indoctrination.

Tuesday’s Election in the Commonwealth of Virginia also may have signaled the end of the effectiveness of the use of the race card, the Democrat’s choice weapon against anyone who opposes their radical ideology. Five activists from the Lincoln Project, a left leaning PAC, were caught red-handed planting fake Youngkin supporters, tiki-torch-carrying white nationalists, by the Youngkin’s bus in a despicable attempt to tie him to the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. Moreover, suburban voters who left the Republican party in 2020 are coming back now, sick of being called racists for holding different political views from the progressives now in power and having gotten a taste of the bitter fruit woke policies have already produced, both locally and nationally.

If the myriad of political analysts from both sides of the aisle are correct in their evaluation of Tuesday’s Elections as being a bellwether of the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats should be very nervous of about losing both chambers of Congress and perhaps now reconsider some of their policies. However, for committed ideological zealots that does not appear likely, something Republicans are expectantly counting on.