There’s no sugar-coating it: Sanity had a bad night Tuesday. Democrats, energized by having President Donald Trump to rail against, turned out at the polls and brought some radical candidates across the finish line in key races across the country.
Just a brief recap: Muslim democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayor’s race. Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race. Mikie Sherrill won the New Jersey governor’s race. Even Jay Jones, the Democrat who infamously fantasized about the deaths of Republicans’ children, prevailed in the Virginia attorney general’s race.
This doesn’t necessarily bode ill for Republicans in the midterms next year, but it does disappoint those of us who expected better from our fellow Americans.