Make Virginia Virginia again
I wrote a piece for The Hill about the changing state of Virginia’s politics. The main point is that Virginia doesn’t need a California agenda or a nationalized culture war imported into Richmond. Obviously, Virginia is so much more than Fairfax or Arlington. Overreach on a radical progressive agenda will bring consequences to the new regime in power. Virginia is a diverse state politically where the cut and paste politics won’t work as well some places:
The trouble is that turning Virginia into a blue-state monoculture with super-charged regulation, activist governance, and more nationalized panic doesn’t fit the Commonwealth and won’t deliver lasting deep blue state results.
If Democrats can find a way to move to the center and opt out of the nationalized progressive rat race they could actually build a durable governing coalition that reflects the whole commonwealth.
—Ray Nothstine
— The Federalism Beat