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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not in Virginia and not familiar with Youngkin or the politics you're talking about but I am curious.  Would you mind sharing a couple of details about it?

Is it just Trump politics?[/quote]

It’s Christian Nationalism politics— the core and soul of current GOP.
Desire to go back/retain a state of things where conservative Christian culture is default and everyone else is, at best, a tolerated guest and, at worst, excluded from society.
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Oh yikes!  Thank you for filling me in. [/quote]
DP in NOVA. Yes, and.

Youngkin campaigned on a lot of "school issues" ("CRT," school choice, parent involvement), and at least in NOVA, he seemed to get some support from suburban moms fed up with the schools' responses to Covid and online learning. His campaign also kept Trump from coming to campaign for him, knowing that would hurt him in NOVA. That, and people were just not excited about McAuliffe. Youngkin seemed to capitalize on this image of himself as a harmless sweater-vest-wearing conservative with some distance between himself and Trump, when actually his policies are perfectly in line with GOP culture wars. He set up a tip line for parents to call in complaints about their kids' teachers teaching CRT; he's trying to gut public education; [b]he thinks Confederate monuments are great[/b]; he's pro-life; he's pro-guns.

His endorsed-and-campaigned-for candidate in the Fairfax City Mayoral race appears to have lost. I think if Youngkin had been on the ballot yesterday, he wouldn't be our governor. Everything points to his own presidential bid soon, so keep an eye on him.[/quote]

Advocating school choice is not "trying to gut public education," you twit.  And the bolded?  Do us a favor and stop lying.  Thanks so much.  [/quote]

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