“Which leaves many wondering, how on earth did this happen?”
Lazy population that took Va’s redness for granted, and let stuff go on auto-pilot until the shift was too far along to correct.
Now they all crow about moving to another state like they are really helping by ceding places to the left, and it isnt like they are going to do much more in the new place. Put up a conservative “pose”, and otherwise go back to not paying attention.
Yeah, yeah, I know I’m supposed to just say something about illegal aliens and NoVa, but at some point acting helpless has got to be abandoned as an excuse.
VA had its own “Redness” issues - there we’re fault lines in the GOP there, long before it was a national issue. Senator John Warner (R), organized a third party candidate to run against Ollie North in 1994, to ensure North did not become a Senator as well. When you have that kind of a GOP in your state, it’s hard to stay united - John Warner is probably happy the RATs won there as well.
“Yeah, yeah, I know I’m supposed to just say something about illegal aliens”
This entire mess started when we took in refugees from Russia in the early 20th. We imported hard core Marxists. They burrowed in like ticks and have been busy ‘transforming’ this country ever since.