That’s all you have to say for yourself? The usual low-intelligence misunderstanding of an issue no one but you brought up (no, predicting who is going to win an election is not what an “appeal to popularity fallacy” is)?
You realize that you are the absolute emblem of what happened here? The fact that some Trump-fellating idiot is in charge of the Virginia national guard during the next coup attempt, that a state where Biden won by OVER TEN POINTS a year ago couldn’t hold a Democratic statehouse, is totally on people like you? That McAuliffe lost SIXTY POINTS with independent voters on education since September 15 due to the intransigent nonsense about schools spouted by your clones in Virginia?
Here is the Democrats’ problem in Virginia, as exemplified by you: Their strategy was composed of lying brazenly, knowingly, and repeatedly, as part of a conscious, centrally directed effort to refuse to engage in discussion of their policies or behavior.
You cannot pay a $350,000 invoice marked “critical race theory training”, as the Loudoun County school board did, and then put forward the intentional, knowing, lie that “critical race theory is not taught in public schools.”
You cannot publish a page stating that public school teachers should read Ibram Kendi in order to become better teachers of critical race theory as the Virginia Department of Education did in 2015 when Terry McAuliffe was governor before, and then put forward the intentional, knowing, lie that “critical race theory is not taught in public schools.”
You cannot run for office as a prosecutor on a platform of “prison abolition” and then try to put a man in prison for attempting to address a school board about his daughter being raped at school, then claim that “prosecutors don’t investigate crimes” when challenged on it, as the Loudoun prosecutor did.
You cannot say in public that you have no knowledge of a serial rapist being repeatedly protected and enabled by the school system because he has a gender identity, when you sent emails earlier that day discussing the case and the rapist by name, as the Loudoun superintendent did.
You cannot mobilize your network of media apologists to claim that “it doesn’t count as rape if they were dating before” without people noticing how disgusting and hypocritical this argument is.
You cannot launch an all-out war on merit-based admissions to gifted programs, advanced math education, and Asian immigrants and then claim that the people affected are somehow “not allowed” to notice what you are doing or vote against you as a result.
You cannot label 54% of a state that has voted straight-ticket Democratic in EVERY election since 2009 as “white supremacists” and claim that no one actually wants high-quality schools, safe children who don’t get raped in the bathroom, or education in real topics as opposed to race war training, with it all just being a pretext for “white supremacy” including when nonwhites and lifelong Democrats ask for these things.
You cannot consistently advocate the idea that the control of school boards by far-left ideologues is a divine right, and that parents seeking to be involved in the democratic process or aware of the content of their children’s education are uppity interlopers who deserve to be prosecuted as terrorists.
Democrats want to accuse everyone else of being secret agents of some agenda, but they do so by repeating a coordinated lie, word for word, that comes from a Democratic Party strategic playbook. You are the one who doesn’t sound like a real person thinking for yourself - you write yourself off as a political operative while accusing parents with no affiliation to any cause beyond their children’s futures of being part of a conspiracy.
Refusing to engage with an enormous grassroots movement against the destruction of Virginia schools -a phenomenon called “critical race theory” - by simply repeating ad nauseam the knowing, calculated lie that “critical race theory is not taught in public schools” got you here. If you want to avoid similar losses in 2022 and 2024 then you better reverse course.
Condemn critical race theory. Agree to remove it from public schools. Never, ever again write off anyone complaining about it as a liar or a white supremacist.
Condemn racial quotas in admissions.
Condemn the false god of “equity” that insists all students deserve the same, shitty education and reaffirm a commitment to level-appropriate, safe schools for everyone.
Leave the absolute disaster that is Atif Qarni, Terry McAuliffe, Karen Keys-Gamarra, and the rest of the experiment with making Democrats the party of anti-education behind. Cut ties, fire them, apologize, and find better issues to run on.
Do these things or keep losing and end up with another Trump term. Your choice. After tonight there’s no more arguing about it except from people with a wish for self-destruction.