The 13 months that separate Trump’s anti-CRT executive order from Terry McAuliffe’s defeat in the recent Virginia gubernatorial race saw the harvesting of political fruit produced by an amazingly accelerated educational process. Across the steep political divide, a nation came…
In late 2020, the Republican Party of Virginia’s State Central Committee voted to nominate its 2021 statewide nominees by convention. Because of the pandemic, the party settled on a drive-thru unassembled convention at 39 sites across Virginia. Although the decision…
Dear Democrats: I will not try to speak for all conservatives, but I think I most would agree when I send a sincere thank you for November 2. To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, it takes a village to create a debacle….
History is being made in the New Jersey state Senate elections. The state’s longest-running senate president, Steve Sweeney, a Democrat, is one of the most powerful figures in New Jersey politics. Some would say that only a lunatic would run…
Whenever Democrats get thumped at the polls, they blame their defeat on poor “communication,” as if the fundamental problem is not the irrationality of their ideas but a mere failure to present them persuasively. But sometimes they absolve themselves completely…
“Virginia Turns Red,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, November 3, 2021.
All of the major networks and the Associated Press have declared that Glenn Youngkin will be the next governor of Virginia. According to Politico, Youngkin currently leads by 2.7 percentage points. Terry McAuliffe’s un-concession speech made it all too obvious…
It’s not yet determined whether Terry McAuliffe and the Democrat Party are on the verge of losing Virginia in a little less than a week. The fact that it’s a very distinct possibility is nonetheless cause for notice. And alarm,…
Former President Barack Obama recently made a campaign stop in Virginia for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe. At the event, he said that Republicans are ‘“trying to systematically prevent” American citizens from voting. He went on: “All across the country,…