![]() ![]() (Image via Library of Congress, public domain) This image is of the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, penned by Thomas Jefferson. Drafted in secret by future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the resolutions condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional and claimed that because these acts overstepped federal authority under the Constitution, they were null and void. The cynicism is galling.The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 were Democratic-Republican responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts passed earlier that same year by a Federalist-dominated Congress. But if he doesn’t really believe this stuff and is just trafficking in it, that’s worse than believing it.” ![]() Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas.Īs a former Republican state legislator said of Youngkin to the New York Times : “Whether he believes in this Trump stuff or if he’s trafficking in it, I don’t know. A Harvard Business School graduate and former private-equity CEO, he brings to mind other Ivy League Republicans who are conning voters by their Trumpian talk, like Sens. Youngkin can’t believe much of what he says. Youngkin has also made ads showcasing McAuliffe’s gaffe in response to the attacks - “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach” - to stoke the grievances among conservative parents. Today that mother is starring in a Youngkin campaign ad the son is now a lawyer at the National Republican Congressional Committee. McAuliffe, who was a popular governor between 20, subsequently vetoed a bill requiring K-12 teachers to notify parents of assignments with “sexually explicit content.” Lately Youngkin has even flirted with book-banning, reviving an old controversy in the state over Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about slavery, “Beloved.” In 2013, a mother complained that Morrison’s book gave her son, a high school senior taking Advanced Placement English, nightmares. , after repeated altercations and even death threats against local officials. Garland’s recent innocuous order that the FBI work with local officials to prevent threats at such meetings came at the request of the National School Boards Assn. McAuliffe has denied any such thing, and Politifact slapped Youngkin for a “Pants on Fire!” falsehood. Merrick Garland to “sic the FBI” on Virginians at local school board meetings protesting “CRT” and vaccine and mask mandates. He’s co-opted a favorite new conspiracy theory on the right, falsely claiming that McAuliffe contacted “his friend Joe Biden” to get Atty. He vows to ban critical race theory, the academic study of systemic racism that isn’t even taught in Virginia’s K-through-12 classes. But his appeals are demagoguery and worse. The polls suggest they’ve resonated with just the voters he needs: both Trumpian conservatives and more moderate parents in vote-rich suburbs of northern Virginia, outside Washington, and Richmond to the south. Most effective for Youngkin, it seems, have been his racially tinged appeals regarding schools. “It’s unclear,” he told one, because “we all know the courts move slowly.” False, as he surely knows: Scores of courts have already struck down the Trump claims of fraud. More than once he’s indulged voters fantasizing that Trump will be restored to office soon. He participated in an “election integrity” rally with conspiracists at conservative Liberty University. He’s called for auditing Virginia’s voting machines, when that’s already been long done and the 2020 results confirmed. From the start, Youngkin has proclaimed that “election integrity” would be his top priority, despite zero evidence of a problem. ![]() While Youngkin hasn’t denied President Biden’s victory, he’s sure trafficked in Trump’s “Big Lie.” Until May, after he’d won Republicans’ gubernatorial nomination over six mostly more-Trumpy rivals, Youngkin wouldn’t acknowledge that Biden was legitimately elected or that Trump was lying about the election. A new Fox News poll showed him with an eight-point lead. A Washington Post-Schar School poll Friday showed the race is a dead heat, and Youngkin seems to have the momentum. ![]()
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