"Let me say right off the bat that I like and admire Winsome Sears. She’s a good woman. However, what she ran on was being a black immigrant woman—that is, she tried to out-Democrat the Democrats, and it didn’t work."
"One of the GOP’s great weaknesses is that it always lets Democrats define the terms of the political debate and the rules of the political game. These old-line Republicans just can’t seem to understand that this is like going to a Vegas casino: The house (or, in this case, the Democrat party) always wins.
"Trump won in large part because he refused to play by any of those rules. He didn’t let Democrat shibboleths constrain his speech, and he refused to abide by “norms” that have no other purpose than to hamstring conservatives. Thankfully, many in his cabinet also understand this.
"We’ve just had two recent examples, one from the right and one from the left, of what a mistake it is to try to beat the other side at its own game. (It can be done, but you need to be spectacularly good at it.)
"The first example, which I hadn’t really thought about before, is the Virginia gubernatorial election. That election is coming into strong focus right now because the new governor, Abigail Spanberger, who ran as a boring CIA administrative sheep, is actually a rabid Marxist wolf.
"Aided by a Democrat legislative majority, she’s intent upon turning Virginia into a Minnesota-California hybrid. The Founders, so many of whom were Virginians, are rolling in their graves, while H.L. Mencken, from his perch in the great beyond, is chortling, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
"Spanberger is playing by her rules. She may ultimately lose, but in the short term, she’s going to get what she wants, which is a state run on Marxist lines with all guardrails against voter fraud removed. That’s how you play the game." . . . More...
