Reality bites. If I were a person with zeal for political office, there’s no way I’d waste time and money running for an office where the deck is so seriously stacked against me as it is in most of the population centers of VA. The demographic there has completely flipped. So if one conservative soul should brave those odds, it would be admirably courageous, but quixotic.
Residents there represent a morphing from the most stalwart exponents of states’ rights into a miasma of bureaucrats, ethnics, college towns, social services and even military/industrial bureaucrats.
It looks like the “Never-Trumper” republicans control the Virginia GOP. And they are waiting for 2024 - when it will be too late.
“ The demographic there has completely flipped. ”
Yes. In my district in NOVA, the Dim candidate for Delegate ran unopposed. The Dim running for State Senator got 70% of the vote.
Republicans still don’t know how to organize the way the DemonRats do.