Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia suggests that Republicans will pay no sustained price for abetting Donald Trump’s assault on democracy. EricLevitz writes
That’s the safe conclusion for Democrats to draw from the party’s apparent loss in Virginia’s gubernatorial election Tuesday night. Joe Biden’s approval rating has been historically bad for several weeks now.
I’m not saying these takes are equally plausible, or that any are necessarily wrong . But I think it’s worth dwelling on the actual unambiguous implications of Tuesday’s result, because they’re quite remarkable. Youngkin’s victory is not a shock, if one trusted the available polling and assumed that American politics was operating as normal. But the normality of American politics in this moment is somewhat insane.
Democrats needed this because the party is otherwise in quite rough shape. Urban-rural polarization has saddled Democrats with a coalition that is historically underrepresented in the House and Senate. The decline of ticket-splitting and nationalization of political media, meanwhile, has made it extremely difficult for Democratic candidates to compete in hostile territory by hewing to local issues, and distancing themselves from the party’s national brand.
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