Yesterday night could be remembered as the decisive election of the past half century, or even longer. While most of the nation was focused on the gubernatorial contest in Virginia where Republicans swept all statewide offices–they’ve been shut out since 2009–and regained control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, hopefully retiring Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe for good in the process, a lot of good things were happening in other places.
Eric Adams (an ex-NYPD Captain) won the election for New York City mayor. Although his win was not unexpected, it was surprising that he was nominated for the office of mayor. Although he is not as sane or conservative as Bill DeBlasio and despite being no conservative, he appears poised to change the dysfunctional and bizarre policies that made New York almost unlivable. This has led to about 100,000 New Yorkers leaving the city over the last year.
Long Island had it all.
Amazing transformations on Long Island Nassau County GOP wins local elections. Retakes the offices of County Comptroller, Comptroller and District Attorney. Keeps County Clerk. Legislative majority adds additional seats The best results achieved by Nassau GOP since 1997.
— Frank Ammendolea (@FrankAmmendolea) November 3, 2021
Even though Minneapolis re-elected the same communist mayor and city council that has run that city into the ground and adopted a rent control law that will inevitably destroy affordable housing, the citizens of that city had enough commonsense to vote down a ballot measure disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department (read Progressives Get Handed Their Heads With Minneapolis Vote on ‘Defund the Police’).
My colleague Nick Arama has highlighted some unexpected bright lights in New Jersey where the fascist governor who sicced the highway patrol on Jewish funerals last year narrowly escaped defeat and the New Jersey Senate President was defeated by a truck driver with no staff whose only campaign expense was for coffee and doughnuts (see New Jersey May Have the Best Race of the Night (It Isn’t the Governor’s Race).
Texas Republican John Lujan won a heavily Democratic seat in Texas (Biden +14 Points in 2020), in a 73% Hispanic congressional district, in a special election.
Seattle provided one of most interesting moments in the evening. In addition to the usual white-people-are-evil curriculum being carried out by the Seattle school bureaucracy, Seattle was beset with Antifa and Black Lives Matter nonsense for a lot of 2020. A “autonomous zone” was created in the downtown area and when the Black police chief objected, she found her salary cut by the city council. Here is some of our coverage in Seattle:
Seattle Will Not Remove the Homeless Camp on Middle School Grounds before Semester Begin
Carmen Best, Former Chief of Seattle Police Unloads Close to a Year after CHAZ/CHOP Campment
Seattle Council member proposes a troubling amendment to prohibit prosecution of crimes committed by protesters
Last night brought us some big surprises.
Seattle Election Results:
• Bruce Harrell, who campaigned on a more-police message, holds large lead for mayor: 65% to 35%
• Ann Davison, a Republican, is leading race for city attorney with 58%
• Sara Nelson, who ran for council on pro-business message, has 60%— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) November 3, 2021
Bruce Harrell, who ran with a probusiness, propolice and return-to-sanity platform, defeated Lorena Gonzalez 65 to 35. It was a “non-partisan” election, which means they were both Democrats. Sara Nelson, a leftist who believes in economic activity and some freedom, had a 60-40 victory over her opponent, another hardcore leftist named Nikkita (with one ‘k’ so she would be confused with Nikita Khruschev) Oliver. Ann Davison, the first Republican to be elected in Seattle for 32 years was the major surprise. Davison is a former Democrat who defected to GOP a couple of years ago as part of the “Walk Away” movement. Davison ran on a law-and-order platform against a proto-typical Seattle leftist who wanted to stop prosecution of misdemeanors…probably as a waypoint to getting rid of felony prosecutions as well. She’s not a conservative, but she’s heartily despised by the far left and that counts for something.
They’re passing Ann Davison off as a “Biden Republican” (lol) to get Seattle voters to support her in the City Attorney’s race, and the right is getting giddy about it. Here’s a quick thread of who her supporters/affiliates are: pic.twitter.com/EaU5cos4ca
— GC (@GNCordova) October 28, 2021
While I don’t see last night as a sea change in favor of the GOP, I do see it as a leading indicator that the whole BLM/Antifa/Critical Race Theory fad has burned itself out. Virginia wasn’t won by Club for Growth. It was won by challenging the fundamental changes the left wishes to impose upon our culture and by refusing to back down despite whatever stupidity Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid had dreamed up on a particular day (Wait, WHO’S Lying? MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Blames McAuliffe Loss on ‘Lies’ About Critical Race Theory; More Delicious Delusional Liberal Media Meltdowns: They Still Don’t Get It). Long Island flipped over the core issue of “bail reform.” Sanity won everywhere it was on the ballot. We shouldn’t forget that in 2024.
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