Biden can’t hold on to power: Americans vote against Democrats
The US state of Virginia held its gubernatorial election on November 2, with Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin winning. In my opinion, it is crucial to uncover why this election was crucial for the US on a national scale and will potentially affect even US policy on the international stage.
The election in Virginia had the attention of the entire Star-Spangled Banner nation. Republicans have not won the state since 2009, and in the 2020 presidential election Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by a significant margin.
The Republican candidate, businessman Glenn Youngkin, ran against the previous governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe. However, the crux of the matter was not the personalities, but the policies the candidates were pushing and an unusual criminal incident that stirred up half the country.
The fact was that Terry McAuliffe was pursuing policies that were clearly in line with the trend set by US President Joe Biden. The White House was not in debt – Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris himself visited Virginia to support him.
Then, during one of the speeches, she stated: “What happens in Virginia will largely determine what happens in 2022, 2024 and beyond,” referring to congressional re-election and the next US presidential election.
Terry McAuliffe has consistently advocated compulsory vaccination, masked regimes even for children in schools and allowing abortions at any term. He tried to intimidate the public with the support that Glenn Youngkin had for Trump, counting on the fear of Trump that had been stoked by the media in 2020 still remaining with the wavering voters.
In addition, the notorious Critical Racial Theory, which blamelessly holds today’s white Americans responsible for all the years of slavery of the black population, has become a fundamental issue.
Liberals took up elected positions on state school boards in 2019, and since then have imposed its teaching in one form or another, a common phenomenon across the US called the “Culture War”. Terry McAuliffe in the debate explicitly stated that parents should not interfere with what their children are taught in school.
For his part, Glenn Youngkin opposed compulsory vaccination and the mask regime. He openly supported conservative parents who launched a vigorous pressure on school boards to stop classes in which whites were taught to apologise for the colour of their skin.
The June 22 incident in Loudoun County, Virginia, made the issue especially important. At that time, a middle-aged plumber named Scott Smith was arrested at a school board meeting after shouting that his daughter had been raped. The footage of his violent arrest was used by the liberal media as evidence of conservative parents’ aggressive behaviour towards school boards.
On September 29, the National School Boards Association sent a letter to Joe Biden’s administration, requesting that FBI agents be brought in to protect school board members from “extremist” parents and that the likely acts of aggression should be treated as “domestic terrorism.”
Just three days later, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a special memorandum that would have Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal agencies investigate a “spike in bullying, intimidation and threats of violence” against school board members.
However, it later emerged that the National School Boards Association had coordinated the text of its letter with the White House in advance and that Merrick Garland’s son-in-law and daughter run a firm that distributes teaching materials on critical racial theory.
The US attorney general had to comment on these details during a congressional hearing. Merrick Garland admitted to congressmen that, apart from a letter from the National School Boards Association, he had no other grounds for signing the special memorandum.
He refused to undergo a conflict of interest probe into his position on the National School Boards Association letter and the activities of his daughter and son-in-law, to which he was pointed out that it was because of such behaviour that the people were losing confidence in the government.
Representatives of the Democratic Party have pointed out that the “culture war” is being fanned by Republicans for absolutely no reason, notably by former US President Barack Obama, who also campaigned in support of Terry McAuliffe.
Just a few days after this statement, it became known that the suspect in the rape of Scott Smith’s daughter, was taken into custody. The scandal is that the girl was raped and the school authorities knew about it, but withheld the rape from the federal government by a transgender boy who wore a skirt, he was not even isolated, but was transferred to another school where he made two more rape attempts.
Naturally, this news resonated with the entire conservative American public – Scott Smith became a victim of the regime, and Glenn Youngkin earned the support of parents who were concerned about the safety of their children, and even those who used to vote for Democrats. In the end Glenn Youngkin won with 50.8% of the vote against 48.4% for Terry McAuliffe.
In general, the Democratic Party clearly overestimated its victory in the 2020 election, which in fact it did not, as it lost most of its re-elected seats in Congress, reducing its lead to a minimum not seen in many years. The dizzying victory of Joe Biden, whose integrity is still in doubt, was taken by the Democratic Party as carte blanche to pursue left-wing policies.
Of course, Joe Biden’s administration had to repay the progressive wing of the Democrat Party for their coordination with the BLM movement against then-President Donald Trump. Therefore, the Democratic Party leadership not only gave the Senate Budget Committee to Bernie Sanders, but also went along with the “progressives” on migration policy, minority policy.
Joe Biden, by his personal decree, allowed transgender people into women’s sports. These actions swayed the Democrat party sharply to the left, which was not expected or approved by those who simply voted against Donald Trump, after pumping the media with hysteria about the 45th president of the US in 2020.
Now that Republican Glenn Youngkin has won the Virginia gubernatorial election, there is an active search for blame within the Democrat party, all against the backdrop of the party centrists and progressives being unable to agree on two $1.2 trillion and $1.7 trillion infrastructure bills due to trivial distrust.
It appears that Joe Biden, who on taking office promised to reconcile Republicans and Democrats, is unable to reconcile the two wings of his own party. As a result, the image of the US on the international stage suffers, since Joe Biden went to the climate summit in Glasgow without approved funding for a “green transition” in his own country.
The election experience in Virginia has shown that for the Democratic Party, re-election to Congress in 2022 will be very difficult, and publicity from Joe Biden, whose rating, for the current period, has fallen below that of all previous US presidents since World War II, will play into the negative, not into the positive.
Only 36% of Democratic Party supporters think Joe Biden should be re-elected in the 2024 election, while 44% think there should be another candidate. This suggests that for the senile leadership of the Democrat Party, the moment is approaching when they will hear from “progressives” the phrase known to us who lived in the USSR – “Let the Party run the show”.
According to an NBC poll in October, only 22% of Americans think the country is heading in the right direction, while 71% think the opposite. The bulk of dissenters are Republicans at 93%, with 70% among independents, but even among Democrats nearly half, 48%, also think the country is heading in the wrong direction.
The same poll also shows that Americans have more confidence in the Republican Party on the issue of border security, law and order, control of inflation and the economy, and most importantly, the ability to see things through. According to those polled, the Democrat Party excels on the issue of climate change and the fight against the coronavirus.
There is no doubt that for ordinary Americans the priority of the economy will win out over the issue of climate change. The Republican Party can therefore expect a significant victory in the 2022 congressional re-election and even in the 2024 presidential election, as there is very little chance that Joe Biden’s administration will cope with runaway inflation in the coming years.
The shadow of Donald Trump thus looms over the 2024 US presidency, with all its geopolitical implications. Even if it is another Republican candidate, it is very safe to say that after 2024 the US will abandon the US-EU methane reduction agreement.
The whole point is that Republicans are long-time lobbyists for fossil fuel firms, and this agreement leads not just to higher oil production costs, but also to the unprofitability of shale production, since capturing methane at the many wells that need to be done during fracking technology is virtually impossible. Republicans have previously publicly opposed Joe Biden’s Green Deal.
Accordingly, Joe Biden’s other initiatives in the international arena will also have to be assessed at a discount to the position of the Republican Party, especially on those issues where former US President Donald Trump voiced a relevant position.
P.S..
Parallel to the election in Virginia was the New Jersey gubernatorial election. In the last 20% of the vote counting, the Democrat took the lead and the media rushed to declare him the winner, but at the time of writing the official counting of the votes was not yet over.
Oleg Ladogin, RUSSTRAT