“We don’t have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media’s pedals to juice their ratings.” – Former President Barack Obama

The price was wrong, Barry. Turns out voters (those “folks” you never stop blaming for your seemingly infinite list of failures) don’t really dig your out-of-touch limousine liberal lectures, especially when your buddy, Attorney General Merrick Garland, wants to label any parent that pushes back against the critical race theory being taught in public schools a “domestic terrorist” (at the behest of the failing Biden regime, of course). You can try to boost your deranged loser pal Terry McAuliffe and his ilk until the cows come home, however, as the recent VA gubernatorial race proved, a lot of voters actually think your party is the one that doesn’t address “serious issues that affect serious people”, not the other way around. It’s almost as if the Democrat Party has yet come to come to the painfully obvious realization that practically no one outside of disturbed racists and smug, condescending Dunning-Kruger effect vessels (watch Glenn Greenwald break down “The Mountain of Data Showing How Authoritarian Democrats Have Become” here) give a rip about working hard to “diversify” Virginia’s teacher base with less white people while simultaneously giving out handouts to the elite class. In other words, Youngkin’s recent victory was a big deal. We tip our hat to him.

McAuliffe’s loss is a victory for all Americans. Why? Because it was a resounding rejection of efforts to divide us by race, the stripping of parental rights, and arrogant, deaf leaders. This benefits us all. – Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi is on the money and this really should be a moment of opportunity. This should be a moment for patriots to celebrate. However, herein lies the rub. If history is any indication, what happens next is, unfortunately, entirely predictable. 

In the here and now, the GOP elites in the RINO class have already claimed that VA is their victory, doubling down on their never-ending cycle of boomercon delusion by publicly stating that Youngkin’s victory was the result of voters rejecting “socialism” (this couldn’t be further from the truth, so it’s only fitting that the GOP immediately tweeted “Last night made it abundantly clear: Americans choose freedom and reject socialism.”) rather than as an affirmation that three out of four Americans believe the country is on the wrong track and that Americans are sick and tired of woke garbage (not to mention being treated like second-class citizens in their own country). Pedro Gonzalez nailed it when he tweeted “Cope and seethe but ‘socialism’ is an utterly meaningless, brainless GOP establishment talking point incapable of mobilizing people in the way that CRT and public school child abuse does. Worse, it’s code for Goldman Sachs tax cuts for people like Zuck.”

Soon, the next stage will unfold. Many of the the first-time Republican voters that swung for Youngkin will realize that the GOP establishment, just like the Democrat establishment, also see their voters as pawns in a game they’re not even a part of (it is just less overtly obnoxious). Nothing substantial will be done on the culture war front (conservative “muh principles” types like to whine about wokeness, but they don’t really have a plan to replace it and it’s going to be difficult to “ban” since it is literally entrenched in every subject matter of the public school curriculum). The GOP establishment will pressure Youngkin with relentless fervor into shifting his undivided attention to giving multinational corporations tax cuts while signing off on an endless supply of cheap foreign labor in order to keep the donor base happy. Resentment from these voters (and the original MAGA base) will continue to grow. Then, just when you think you can’t get more frustrated, the establishment GOP goons and their loser think-tank cronies will start ranting and raving about how “we need to reach out across the aisle and work together” on issues that not a single Virginian that voted for Youngkin identified in his 2021 platform.

We hope we’re wrong. Scratch that, we’d love to be wrong. Unfortunately, however, this is how it’s done in the GOP that rolled Trump after he gave them the victory of a lifetime in 2016. The ungrateful windbags (we’re looking at you Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy) that control the levers of power within the party just can’t help themselves. Oh, sure, you’ll get the populist-sounding rhetoric around election time. But when it’s time to lead and govern? It’s like one of the disgraced Bush hacks is running the joint again. 

It’s not all bad news, though. There is, in fact, a solution (it’s a simple one, too). It merely requires that voters hold the desperate-to-appease-the-Democrats GOP accountable when they proceed to conveniently forget the reasons for their victory and that they call bs on the GOP’s calls for limited government (not because a smaller government wouldn’t be great, but, you know, because they don’t mean it). Did you see the DC bureaucracy (roughly 95% of federal employees donate to Democrats) shrink under Trump? Yeah. About that. Neither did we. Cutting unnecessary regulations is chill and all, but, uh, last we checked, Trump rode into office by promising to “Drain the Swamp”. 

Don’t get mad. Just listen to people like us, David Reaboi, and Michael Anton when we tell you exactly  “what time it is”.