If we really want to talk about "messaging", look to Virginia

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Elections send messages!

There was no more damaging message sent, than the one from the Virginia 2021 off-year election. In fact, you can thank 2021 Virginia voters for the resuscitation of Donnie Dipshit.

Just about EVERY atrocity we are currently seeing has come from this one, off-year election.

Critical Race Theory, DEI, Trans Bathroom Shit, the excusing of violent Insurrection, the normalizing of Donnie Dipshit...it can all be traced to the "message" Virginia voters sent to the MAGAts.

The 2021 Virginia election sent a terrible message to the MAGAts.

We had just witnessed an attempted violent coup in Washington DC. Virginia, you could still smell the smoke, teargas and blood of January 6 waifting across the Potomac. Despite that, Virginians went to the polls and elected 3 straight-up fascists to the highest statewide offices. Democrats were able to hold a slim majority in the Statehouse, which was the ONLY thing that prevented Virginia from becoming Northern Florida.

Make no mistake. The message sent was that the Retrumplican Party could overcome the stench of a violent coup attempt, as long as you demonized the right people. Those people were, once again, our friends in the LGBTQ community.

The Dem candidate for governor made a dumb statement about "we don't want parents controlling what is taught in schools". Of course, we had just seen screaming and threats of violence at School Board meetings, where the Mom's for Liberty groups were trying to take over.

McColough's gaff should not have mattered.

You should have been able to run a ham-sandwich against the PARTY OF VIOLENT INSURRECTION and won with 70% of the vote.

Instead, the Retrumplican Party got the message that THEY WOULD PAY NO ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCE for trying to overthrow American Democracy.

There was 1 trans kid in Louden County, and he became the whipping boy for the entire state. The ads in Virginia 2021 were a primer for the PA, MI, WI, NC and GA ads of 2024.

If you want to know why trans kids in school became such a major national issue, look no further than the message the MAGAts took from the Virginia 2021, Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General races.

Let's send a different message to them this time.