Thoughts on yesterday’s election
One problem I see is when races that really are not competitive for Republicans are covered in the media as though they are, it sets up high expectations that lead to depression if they’re not met. That’s part of what happened in yesterday’s elections, especially in Virginia – home of the federal worker – and New Jersey.
I didn’t expect wins. But nevertheless the magnitude of the losses distress. Even the sadistic fantasizer Jay Jones won, if not in a landslide, certainly in a race that turned out to not even be close. And here’s what supposedly is in store for Virginia:
We lost 13 House seats. No Republican won outside deep-red districts. …
So, what happens now? When the General Assembly convenes in January, Democrats will have full control. Here’s what we can expect:
•Gun Control: Restrictions on semi-automatic rifles, bans on magazines holding more than 10 rounds, and limits on concealed carry reciprocity with other states.
•Right-to-Work: Expect attempts to abolish Virginia’s right-to-work protections, paving the way for mandatory union membership and higher local taxes through collective bargaining mandates.
•Taxes: New taxes on services like dry cleaning, handyman repairs, and digital services.
•Energy Costs: Re-entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), meaning higher power bills for Virginia families.
•Transportation: Re-adoption of California’s vehicle standards — by 2035, only electric cars can be sold new in Virginia.
•Elections: A new redistricting amendment that will let Democrats redraw congressional lines — creating 10 blue districts and just one red.
•Education & Culture: Full reinstatement of transgender bathroom and sports policies in public schools.
•Immigration: Virginia will move toward sanctuary-state status by reversing cooperation with ICE.
•Criminal Justice: Passage of “Second Look” laws allowing violent felons serving life sentences to seek release after 15 years.Democrats will treat last night’s results as a mandate to advance this entire agenda — and much more.
That’s just Virginia. You can say many of the GOP candidates were less than stellar, you can say it’s an off year, you can say the shutdown and the federal layoffs mattered, but the trend everywhere was in the wrong direction. That will encourage the Democrats’ leftward trend – not that leftists need such encouragement. But they’ve gotten it. Will that backfire nationally? Perhaps.
I’m going to write a separate post on the New York mayor’s race.
In Minneapolis, a tiny bright spot – although “bright” isn’t really the correct word. It was a mayor’s race that featured leftist versus corrupt third-world-aligned even more leftist, and the leftist incumbent won. I submit it was because Omar Fateh, the loser, is not nearly as telegenic and charismatic as New York’s Mamdani.
The four years of the Biden administration were very difficult, but in July of 2024 things seemed to start turning, with the assassination attempt on Trump that failed. Trump won handily in 2024, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into much of anything for 2025 and beyond. In September of this year when Kirk was assassinated, I felt it was like a mirror-image bookend to the failed attempt on Trump. It seemed to auger something bad. Whether this perception is correct in the long run remains to be seen.
In closing, I agree with this from Gad Saad. He’s written books on the subject:
The ethos of a society is rooted in its shared and agreed upon values. American exceptionalism embodies a set of foundational values. These are going to be erased in 1-3 generations as a result of the policies rooted in Suicidal Empathy.
I’m not sure where this chart came from, although I’ve seen it in a couple of places. So I present it with that caveat. But I think the general trends are true:
If you wanted to explain “Suicidal Empathy” in a single chart.
The most dangerous demographic to the survival of the West.
Liberal White Women.
Mamdani voter breakdown.??? pic.twitter.com/tOVtS2L8PP
— C3 (@C_3C_3) November 5, 2025
Somewhere I saw a similar analysis on the vote for the execrable Jay Jones in Virginia. Younger women voted for him in large numbers.
Helen Andrews recently sounded the alarm on AWFLs and the feminization of the culture in general and how it will lead to the downfall of the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLbq7PlrIA
I watched it happen in real time at my former employer college as the faculty and administration became female majority.
Yeah, it now begins to look like the last year’s election of Trump was just a speed bump. I hope by next summer all his efforts bear fruit, but……
Re NYC: Boomers and X’ers (basically anyone 45+) seemed to have voted for Cuomo over Mamdani by significant margins. But more Millennials and Zoomers voted in total. One way to look at this is generational warfare. Perhaps it’s a lack of prospects for younger people manifesting as resentment and mistrust of older cohorts. This makes them far more susceptible to charismatic Marxist charlatans like Mamdani who promise a reckoning upon wealthier older generations I suppose.
Here in Austin voters easily killed a massive property tax hike that was sold as “homeless relief and other city services,” which I can’t believe was enough to alienate nearly three-quarters of constituents. Not saying Austin is solved — not sure it can be — but at least there’s not another round in the Russian Roulette pistol.
Helen Andrews has a compelling argument.
My two nieces, both professionals, are a card-carrying AWFLs. I don’t want to be like one of those awful woke-sters who walks away from family over politics and cultural issues, but I’m not far from it. To be perfectly honest, if they weren’t family I would never have anything to do with either one of them, and when they’re in town to visit their mother (my sister), I’ve begun finding reasons to be out of town. It’s blood, and only that, that keeps them with my circle of friends or family. And even that grows more and more tenuous.
Even more than the election of Mamdani, the election of “the sadistic fantasizer Jay Jones” reveals a grim truth about most democrat voters.
The White House correspondent for The Federalist sees what most on the right have yet to fully accept; “The Assassination Left Elects Their Champion In Virginia”
“Well over 1.7 million voters just told every conservative that they would rather have as attorney general a man who described in detail his desire to slaughter a Republican — former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert — and have his children die in their mother’s arms than (to reelect) Miyares, whose tenure has been defined essentially by enforcing the law in an even-handed way and protecting girls in school from having men expose themselves to them.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/05/the-assassination-left-elects-their-champion-in-virginia/
From this point forward, anyone on the right who still imagines that the average democrat voter under 40 retains (toward we on the right) even a miniscule of basic common decency is whistling past the graveyard. When someone wishes you were dead… believe them.
Perhaps when the Left and Islam racks up another 100+ MILLION dead, the survivors will finally accept the truth.
GB,
It’s not just the under 40 crowd. The boomers that I know that are D leftists also express such desire to kill Trump and his supporters. Look at what the ancient Pelosi said just a few days ago. TDS knows no age limit. It infects all the Ds I know.
I believe the majority of younger voters — college educated and blacks — who voted for Mamdani are antisemitic. Mamdani’s antisemitic statements and views resonated with them.
REVERSING THE REIGN of toxic feminism in EVERY helping profession is now obvious and essential— or else or liberty shall fall.
“Colleges are teaching Gen Z to love socialism”—from Campus Reform https://www.campusreform.org/article/sturge-colleges-teaching-gen-z-love-socialism/28894
Nonapod on November 5, 2025 at 3:31 pm:
“But more Millennials and Zoomers voted in total. One way to look at this is generational warfare. Perhaps it’s a lack of prospects for younger people manifesting as resentment and mistrust of older cohorts. This makes them far more susceptible to charismatic Marxist charlatans like Mamdani who promise a reckoning upon wealthier older generations I suppose.”
It was my understanding that the Boomer cohort has (in general) acquired more wealth than any previous one, and that as we pass, our successor generations will inherit a windfall. But if that wealth is taxed away first, then — “sorry kids — no windfall for you”.
I believe it is the SAVE Act that now requires inherited money to be distributed and taxed over a relatively short 10 years vs. the previous 27 years (or so?) time span.
But young people in general and these generations in particular seem to have less ability to take a long term view than the older groups, or at least the insight for doing so comes from experience and the passage of sacred life time. If or when they do see the light, their time available for investment compounding will be shorter than if they started as younger adults.
Rush talked about it years ago. The ” chickafication” of America.
— physicsguy
It looks like nothing of the sort.
The election went about as reasonably to be expected. The only reason it seems worse than it is is that expectations were falsely hyped up. These are deep blue areas and the Dems have a huge ground game, as Data Republican has noted. The GOP needs to work on their ground game and countermoves, but is being held back because so much of the GOP apparat privately still hopes to wait out Trump and go back to the post-1990s ‘normal’.
Just compare where we are today with 2016, and suddenly it’s clear that we have made enormous progress on multiple fronts, and that after the Biden years and a mass lawfare effort that’s still going on. It’s a long, slow slog against an entrenched foe, but we are making progress, in spite of setbacks.