re: #194 Targetpractice

A majority of Virginia voters disagreed last month. Might be because while we were screaming “FASCISM!!!,” VA Repubs were out there telling folks that their kids were in danger (if the danger was only of hurt feelings) if VA Dems weren’t voted out.

I don’t know where you’re going with this. Once you got past the Concerned Parent/Actually GOP County Committee Chair plants on the nooz, the main issue in VA seemed to be that the schools were closed for a LONG time because of COVID, McAuliffe sounded like he brushed off the parents, and enough voters got pissed off about that. And if you believe in Iron Laws of Politics, like the Dems are going to lose the House in 22 because in midterms that’s almost always what happens, VA elects the party that lost the previous presidential election because that’s almost always what happens.

If you’re saying that negative partisanship appeals work better for the GOP than the Dems, that’s probably true because that’s all the GOP has. It doesn’t mean that the Dems shouldn’t use it to its maximum advantage. Don’t progressives criticize liberals for not being willing to fight?