One of the centre left places that I try to read as often as I can is Harry’s Place. I do so because it is relatively centrist and not at all dogmatic. Unlike some Leftist sites they are willing to criticise their own side when such criticism is deserved.

They’ve just published a brilliant article by a writer named Vildechaye on the Republican victory in the recent election in Virginia which saw Glenn Youngkin elected as Governor. Vildechaye

notes that there is the genuine reality of voters who wanted to take back their education system from the far Left and the MSM’s version of reality, which is nothing at all like reality, where the parents who voted for Youngkin were deemed ‘racists’. According to Vildechaye the MSM such as CNN was nakedly biased towards the Democratic candidate and used whatever means they could to try to discredit Mr Youngkin.

Vildechaye said:

To support the Democratic candidate, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, the media tried to convince voters that the angry parents at school board meetings speaking out against what they believed were racial divisions being stoked rather than ameliorated by the curriculum were either totally misinformed, racists, or even terrorists, and that what the parents called critical race theory (CRT) wasn’t actually guiding how children were being taught about race.

This was a tough job, given that (a) because of Covid and remote learning via ZOOM, parents could actually see and hear what their kids were being taught; and (b) the rest of us could watch Youtube videos of angry parents at school board meetings and could see that these were ordinary parents, not extremists or racists.

In the end the efforts were unsuccessful; Youngkin’s margin of victory was 2.5 percentage points, a solid if not landslide victory for a candidate nobody thought had a chance in a state that the GOP lost by 10 percentage points in the national elections last year.

Please read the rest of Vildechaye’s article. It’s brilliant. It shows how voters in Virginia saw though the lies that the MSM was telling about Youngkin and how they smeared the parents who objected to far left indoctrination in schools as ‘racists’.