There’s a grab bag of good news and bad news for just about everyone in Tuesday’s gubernatorial upset in Virginia, when Republican Glenn Youngkin bested Democrat Terry McAuliffe by two percentage points. Pundits are foretelling gloom and doom for Democrats nationally — pointing to everything from President Joe Biden’s stalled agenda, to COVID-19 fatigue, to the bogus belief that critical race theory (CRT) is poisoning K-12 public schools.
