Democratic candidates won all 30 of Northern Virginia’s seats in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday as the party was set to significantly expand its 51-49 majority in the state’s lower chamber.
As of 11 p.m., Democrats had picked up 13 seats statewide, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. With only one race undecided, the Democrats will hold at least 64 of the 100 seats, the most they have held in nearly 40 years.
Trump’s shutdown has fucked federal workers, and half of NoVa is either a federal worker, a contractor, or someone whose livelihood hinges on the above getting their next paychecks. This has royally fucked Northern Virginia specifically. So it would signal the GOP is eating shit for their national policy platform of “Eliminate the federal bureaucracy at all costs”.
But when you asking what kind of politicians are replacing the outgoing GOP reps? Well… consider the new Virginia Governor - Abigail Spanberger - spent the last week of her campaign condemning “Defund the Police” despite nobody asking her about it. These are still going to be Ivy League educated, ultra-nationalist, neoliberal hacks. And they’re going to be governing a population that gets its paychecks based on how many high explosive devices we ship to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
You’re getting the kind of politician that wants to put a Rainbow Flag sticker on the B-2 bombers that struck Iran. Folks who think school vouchers need to be means tested, but don’t instantly recoil at the idea of both a Christian and Muslim private school cashing the checks.
Virginia’s trading out a long and ugly legacy of Strom Thurmond-ism for a bright refreshing cup of Joe Biden-ism. Yay…
It’s amazing how mild of a statement has sparked 5 years of bipartisan backlash. Like, defund the police was the alternative to keeping letting them kill people or abolishing them or even holding them accountable for murders they commit. Just don’t give them a reward for highway robbery and murder