From @jmartNYT in @nytimes: “Should Mr. McAuliffe lose or barely win, moderates will demand immediate passage of infrastructure bill. Liberals will argue that the Democratic Party, and democracy itself, are in such a parlous state that they must push through new voting laws.” 1
Martin is usually over the target when reporting on Beltway doings, and what he anticipates among Ds is likely if @GlennYoungkin momentum continues through Tuesday night. But that means Democrats will miss the key signal emerging from the VA races: Public education broken. 2
All across VA —from its deep blue Beltway suburbs to the smallest town in southwest of the state— public education has failed voters for 18 months. McAuliffe doesn’t appear to know that, or even care. It’s been number one issue for @GlennYoungkin since he got into primary. 3
Folks without children or with the resources and jobs to have coped somewhat easily with public schools’ surrender to shutdown and chaotic reopening and wildly unnecessary rules and cautions don’t begin to perceive depth of public dissatisfaction with the education bureaucracy. 4
If @GlennYoungkin wins it will be a huge blow against the ideological creep of teachers’ union and tenured educrats, against CRT in pure or diluted forms, against any more shutdowns, and for return of common sense to school quarantine rules. Parents are driving Youngkin surge. 5
It is true that the hapless president and the deadlocked Democrats haven’t helped the the attempted relaunch of a very tired brand McAuliffe, but the real takeaway in Virginia is that parents have had it with public schools, as have their kids, friends and grandparents. 6
Meaning when @GlennYoungkin wins, his victory speech, his transition and every day as governor has to to focused on public education. Fire as many educrats as possible, hire as many reformers as possible, get districts on one page of common sense about the virus…change it all. 7
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
