I personally know a guy who ran for Virginia State Senate as a Republican. He got into the race because he was horrified by Northam’s comments about post-birth abortion. A more decent, salt-of-the-earth guy you could not hope to meet.
He got blown out by nearly ten points. But Virginians did elect a Democrat Senator who had once gone to jail on a morals charge.
Virginians deserve whatever happens to them at this point IMHO.
I’ve said since the turn of the century that in a democracy, you not only get the government you want. You get the government you deserve.
I literally see the US as 50 separate countries kept in check by an overarching common constitution. What that means is that, as a Kentuckian, when I see crazy stuff happening in Virginia or California, I’m like an Irishman seeing crazy stuff in Germany or France. Not my country.
It also speaks to why I moved from my longtime home, Seattle, to KY 8 years ago. And it changed my life in so many good ways.