It should be clear to everyone by now, right? Why Republican Glenn Youngkin spanked Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. Why the GOP swept all three statewide races in the Old Dominion and why progressive Democrats barely held on in New Jersey while losing scores of down-ballot local races around the country?
The answer is abundantly clear: Americans don’t like to be talked down to and preached to by their elected officials. Period, full stop. It’s not much more complicated than that.
When voters complain, and they’re ridiculed and scorned by the people supposedly tasked with representing them, the results should be fairly predictable.
For most of the Democratic Party intelligentsia, however, McAuliffe’s loss in Virginia is all about “white supremacy” brought on by uneducated “book burners.” The evilest of all, however, is white women, who are “ruining America” according to some left-wing authors for choosing Youngkin over McAuliffe.
Well, here’s a small group of these evil white suburban book-burning women explaining, in their own words, why they turned on Biden, Obama, and McAuliffe last week to vote for a Republican in Virginia:
They’re not fans of Trump, and they’re not fans of being condescended to when they raise concerns that their children are falling behind and not one elected official seems to care. Terry McAuliffe didn’t care, he laughed at their concerns like it was a big joke, and their children’s education was the punch line.
President Obama, as one woman mentions, was arrogant and dismissive. Obama is another so-called “empathetic” Democrat who supposedly values education laughing at parents who visibly see their children struggling while teachers’ unions and school boards tell them all to sit down and shut up.
School closures were a big deal, and parents have watched their kids struggle and regress since last year. Democrats entirely missed this because they firmly believe parents don’t matter. Yet, the all-encompassing “Parents Matter” slogan from Glenn Youngkin tapped into every parental concern and left Democrats playing defense or dismissing it entirely:
The father was furious. “Figure it out, or get off the podium,” he shouted at school board members in Loudoun County, Va.
He was not irate about critical race theory, which would come to dominate the state’s gubernatorial race, with the Northern Virginia exurbs at the center of that battle over how to teach history in schools. His anger did not stem from debates about which bathrooms transgender students should use. Those heated battles were still months away. It was January 2021, and what the screaming father wanted was more immediate and concrete.
He sought the end of remote learning.
“It’s not a high bar,” he shouted at the school board members sitting before him. “Raise the freaking bar.”
The palpable emotion with regard to school board members dismissing parents and ignoring concerns had been brewing for months before the gubernatorial campaign even started in the Spring.
As one of the women in the above video says, listening to President Obama dismiss parental concerns was like listening to the school board dish out the same attitude.
Parents struck back in Virginia, and Democrats labeling them as dumb, uneducated book-burning racists is a recipe for electoral disaster in the coming cycles:
Most parents never grew as publicly and floridly enraged as the father berating educators in Loudoun County. But conversations with Republicans and Democrats, parents and educators, found a hangover from school closures intertwining with other education-related issues, leading voters to punish elected officials they associated with those policies, which also included revisions to gifted programs, limits on the reach of law enforcement in school and curriculum updates.
For Democrats to paint voters as ill-informed because they didn’t buy the lies is part and parcel of the problem. Parents, they say, are too stupid to understand that it’s necessary for their children to suffer, and unnecessary for them to ask questions or demand better.
Trying to boil Youngkin’s victory down to winning heavy rural vote margins isn’t enough. Without cross-over voters, like the video highlights above, McAuliffe probably would’ve won a tight race. Democrats did their best at turning off voters why won in 2020 on national issues and by bombing with them on state and local issues in 2021.
Keep repeating the lie that critical race theory and its offshoots are not promoted in the classroom curriculum.
Keep telling parents they have no right to question their elected officials.
Keep telling parents they shouldn’t expect their kids to be safe in a school bathroom.
Go ahead, Democrats, keep calling suburban parents racist and dumb for voting the wrong way. They might just keep on doing it.
