No means no.
From the White House to school boards across America, voters on Tuesday screamed at Democrats: “No!” to reckless spending, meddlesome bureaucrats, bear hugs for criminals, racial fetishism in classrooms and beyond, soaring energy prices, a monthly-average of 179,779 illegal aliens invading the southern “border” on President Joe Biden’s watch, and much more.
More concisely, Voters to Democrats: Drop dead.
Tuesday’s biggest prize, of course, was Virginia, where first-time candidate Republican Glenn Youngkin soundly defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the commonwealth’s last governor, 50.9 percent to 48.4 percent.
“Racism still works in Virginia,” shrieked ex-Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.) via Twitter. The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill declared, “This country simply loves white supremacy.”
Evidently, the same white supremists who elected Youngkin also picked Republican Winsome Sears as lieutenant governor. She is a black, Jamaican-born Marine Corps veteran. They also elected Republican Jason Miyares, an Hispanic, as their next attorney general. Bonus: Virginia’s House of Delegates flipped Democrat to Republican.
According to exit polls, Youngkin won 13 percent of blacks (versus Trump’s 10 percent in 2020) and 55 percent of Hispanics (versus Trump’s 36 percent in 2020).
In New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has claimed victory over Republican Jack Ciattarelli with a lead of just a few thousand votes; the Republican is not conceding amid ballots yet uncounted and reported anomalies in Bergen County. Whatever happens, a former GOP state assemblyman was not supposed to get thisclose to a Democratic governor of a state that Biden won by 16 points.
Democrat Steve Sweeney, the Garden State’s Senate President since 2010, fell to Ed Durr, a truck driver and Republican newcomer. Sweeney spent $490,726. Durr’s campaign war chest was under $10,000. Final score: Sweeney 48.2 percent, Durr 51.8 percent.
In New York, Republicans will boost their City Council caucus from three, possibly to six. On nearby Long Island, Republicans will become Nassau County Executive and district attorneys of Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Statewide, liberal proposals to inflict same-day voter registration and expand no-excuse absentee voting went up in smoke.
In yet another act of GOP white nationalism, Hispanic Republican John Lujan won a Texas state House special election in a 78 percent Hispanic district near San Antonio that Biden carried by 14 points. Lujan’s platform: Border security.
In Minneapolis, birthplace of the defund-the-police movement, a ballot measure to “reimagine” the 70-percent Democrat city’s police force into a touchy-feely Department of Public Safety crashed and burned — 57 percent No, 43 percent Yes.
In Democrat-clogged Seattle, voters choose law-and-order GOP candidate Ann Davison as city attorney, a first in 32 years.
New York-based Ryan Girdusky, founder of the 1776 Project PAC, focused on school boards, where social-justice warriors have plotted the Left-wing indoctrination of America’s children. He raised $135,000 and channeled digital ads, mailers, and grassroots campaign materials into seven states. Among Girdusky’s 58 conservative candidates, 44 prevailed, yielding a powerful 76 percent win rate.
If Democrats were smart, they would remember that HillaryCare and other Leftist excesses cost them the House in 1994. President Bill Clinton “triangulated,” steered sharply toward the center, and helped Speaker Newt Gingrich (R- Georgia) reduce capital gains taxes and reform welfare.
Alas, too many Democrats are dumb. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appears hellbent on pushing Biden’s $1.75 trillion (per Penn Wharton: $3.98 trillion) Build Back Better tax-hike, welfare and red-tape colossus. She and other socialists argue that Democrats got clocked Tuesday for not being leftist enough. Will Pelosi and her party wise up or will they keep torturing the American people?
Stumping for McAuliffe in Norfolk, Vice President Kamala Harris said: “What happens in Virginia will, in large part, determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.” It would behoove Democrats to reimagine last week’s battle cry as a cautionary tale.