While what the author says is mostly true, he is wrong in blaming Virginia’s conversion from red to blue on Obama’s growing bureaucracy.
Virginia turned blue because of the huge influx of illegal aliens into northern Virginia. In the democrat controlled areas of northern Virginia, illegal aliens (and green card non-citizen immigrants) were registered in large numbers by democrats and their allies (SEIU, etc.) and flipped statewide votes for governor and attorney general, and now the house and senate.
Ironically, they did it with Republican establishment and Chamber of Commerce help and apathy.
Now in total power, like California,they are changing laws to make Virginia into East California.
The paid actors, pretending to be trump supporters, will still show up and provide fodder for the press and the un-constitutionalist.