Depicted in the image: Republican Corey Stewart, former Gubernatorial candidate, and Republican Ed Gillespie, former Gubernatorial nominee during a debate at Liberty University.
Virginia’s Democrats have some apologizing to do. After years of mislabeling Republicans as the party of rape, racism, and everything evil, they’ve been exposed as the very things they claim to detest.
Over the course of mere days, the Democratic Party of Virginia, which currently occupies every statewide elected office in the Commonwealth, has seen both Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring (who himself is running for Governor in 2021) embroiled in controversy over donning blackface, and Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax accused of two violent sexual assaults.
Needless to say, their actions have put the Commonwealth of Virginia on the map for all the wrong reasons, with the New York Post boldly proclaiming ‘VIRGINIA IS FOR LOSERS’ on the cover of Thursday morning’s edition.
All three men now face calls to resign from office, a move that would completely undo the results of a 2017 election heralded by mainstream media outlets as a rebuke of President Trump, and could possibly result in Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox assuming the role of Governor, in what would be a historically unprecedented event.
Although it has now become evident that Governor Northam and Attorney General Herring are apparent racists (or at the very least have publicly engaged in racist behavior), it wasn’t very long ago that the two men were held up as progressive icons of diversity, racial harmony, and our last best hope to stop Confederate flag waving conservatives from running minority children over with pickup trucks.
Unfortunately, this isn’t just allegory, it was an actual campaign ad produced by Ralph Northam and the Latino Victory Fund during a 2017 gubernatorial campaign chocked full of cheap accusations of racism by Northam and fellow Democrats.
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‘VA is an inclusive and diverse community’ Northam tweeted during his 2017 race for Governor against Republican Ed Gillespie. ‘We won’t put up with Ed Gillespie’s racist rhetoric and fear mongering’ read the tweet, which included a link to a Richmond Times-Dispatch article profiling a man claiming he’d been ‘ripped apart’ by Gillespie’s opposition to sanctuary cities and campaign promise to combat the rise of MS-13.
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Taking things a step further, Northam and his team even mailed fliers throughout the Commonwealth depicting President Trump and Ed Gillespie alongside white nationalist demonstrators carrying torches through the streets of Charlottesville.
Additionally, earlier that year, then-Governor Terry McAuliffe accused Gillespie of running the ‘most racist’ campaign in Virginia’s history, with no evidence to boot. Obviously, the issue of race was central to Northam’s campaign as he and his party put on their best Joseph Goebbels impression by accusing the other side of that of which they were guilty.
Perhaps no one has been more maligned by Virginia’s Democrats and their allies in mainstream media than Corey Stewart, a 2017 Republican primary opponent of Ed Gillespie, and his party’s 2018 nominee for US Senate. Democrats spent years attacking Corey Stewart as a racist due to his ties to President Trump and steadfast defense of Virginia’s history.
Attacks on Stewart weren’t just limited to snipes from fellow politicians and a few campaign ads, they went as far as to include violent Democrat-led protests and a constant barrage of bad press from the ‘Amazon Washington Post’ (what President Trump refers to the Washington Post as) which is ironic for a newspaper carrying the motto ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’.
Alongside street thugs and their media apparatus, Virginia’s Democrats arguably dedicated more time and energy to the character assassination of Corey Stewart than they had any politician since Abraham Lincoln.
‘For the last three years, far left liberals here in Virginia, in the national media, and across this nation have been calling everyone who supports Donald Trump’s America First policies racist’ Stewart told Big League Politics earlier this week. ‘By now it’s obvious they were more keen on hiding their own issues with rape and vilifying anyone they had to, including my opponent Ed Gillespie, in order to win. Virginia Democrats are racists and rapists!’
Stewart’s tone has been echoed across the Commonwealth since the moment Patrick Howley‘s report on Governor Northam rocked Richmond and has only gotten louder as Virginians have learned that a potential serial rapist is serving as Lieutenant Governor.
Justin Fairfax, the man who only a week ago was thought to be on the cusp of becoming the Commonwealth of Virginia’s second black Governor, has now found himself embroiled in a rape controversy. Standing accused of a violent sexual assault at the 2004 DNC, and another during his time at Duke University, Fairfax has been condemned and urged to resign by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Fairfax has only made matters worse for himself following a sit-down with staff where he is alleged to have shouted ‘f___ that bitch!’ in reference to Vanessa Tyson, the woman at the center of the 2004 allegations. Additionally, Virginians have now learned that in 2017, Congressman Bobby Scott of Virginia’s third district, a close ally of Fairfax, was made aware of the assault by Ms. Tyson herself, but did nothing.
Clearly, Virginia’s Democrats have an accountability problem. A political party which has used allegations of racism and rape as a weapon against their opponents for a generation has skated by for far too long while playing by their own rules.
It is time Democrats are held to their own standards. What happened to #MeToo? What happened #BelieveAllWomen? What about #SmashRacism? Virginia’s Democrats have some apologizing to do.
Unfortunately, if this is the Democrat Party Americans have come to know over the past decade, there will be no apologizing, no humility, just more digging in of heels. If this trend continues, we could see the complete and total unraveling of the Democratic Party of Virginia.