Glenn Youngkin just showed us why he's already going full Trumpist on schools

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Almost immediately after Glenn Youngkin unexpectedly won the Virginia gubernatorial race, some observers spied a tantalizing possibility: Youngkin might show that in today’s Trumpified GOP, there’s still a place for a center-right politics that rebuffs Donald Trump’s worst impulses and charts a new route to a right-leaning majority.

But Youngkin is already going full Trumpist on at least one issue: Banning school districts from requiring masks. In the face of widespread resistance to his efforts, he’s hitting back in a way that’s positively Trumpy in its toxic bad faith and utter contempt for judicious governing.

In an interview with influential right wing radio host John Fredericks on Monday night, Youngkin demonstrated why he has brought on this controversy. The episode, reported by The Post, captures something essential about the pathologies that Trump has unleashed in our politics, and the tendency of so many GOP politicians to eagerly go along with them.

Youngkin laced into “left liberals” and school board “bureaucrats,” blaming them for the turmoil that has erupted in response to his new policy. Youngkin recently signed an executive order allowing parents to opt out of mask requirements without offering any reason, but dozens of school districts are keeping the mandates in place, arguing that state law requires them to do so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/25/glenn-youngkin-mask-mandates-trump/

[58Sunliner]

1. I was wondering what path he would take. Full on fascist or fake republican moderate.

I thought he might be more circumspect about his ultimate ambition. I guess he thinks he can get away with the blitzkrieg style of desensitization to assaults on democracy. What a pos.

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2. Primary voters.

[58Sunliner]

3. Look at what they chose for a primary. Not primary voters in the usual sense.

"Virginia Republican leaders decided Saturday to pick the party's 2021 nominee for governor at a convention instead of in a statewide primary, a controversial decision that led a Trump-style contender to declare she'll drop out and run as an independent instead."

"an unassembled convention held across 39 satellite locations", ..."there was no limit on how many delegates could cast votes, which were weighted according to the number of delegate votes allocated to each locality. Delegates cast a single ballot using ranked-choice voting to determine a majority-vote winner, rather than using multiple rounds of voting."

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4. Good detail, ty Sunliner. Looks like you nailed youngkin. Both moderate fake,

and now in office, full facist appeal to far right nationals.

May have used some of his upfront millions to manipulate the process you described.

Now, he may care less about Virginia. School board suits - he gets national rw donor publicity win or lose.