The Most Self-Righteous Political Act of 2017 Just Took Place in the VA Governor's Race
The left-wing firing squad is back.
The geniuses at Democracy for America, the organization that grew out of Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, have un-endorsed (without ever having actually endorsed him in the first place) Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam over a recent flip-flop on sanctuary cities.
It’s the most appallingly self-righteous and idiotic thing that’s happened in American politics this year. And this has been a year filled with self-righteous and idiotic things.
Northam once cast a crucial vote against a bill banning sanctuary cities in Virginia. He did so because, he explained, there were no sanctuary cities in Virginia. Republican Ed Gillespie, once a country-club Yankee Republican now trying to reincarnate himself as Jeff Sessions, has been hammering him on it. So Northam flipped.
Though he has said he opposes sanctuary cities, this past week he conceded that he’d sign a bill banning them. It’s cowardly. It’s probably bad politics, too. It’s better politics to take your lumps and turn it into a character issue by proving that you have a backbone. People respect that even if they disagree with your position.
All of these things should matter to DFA. But they’ve apparently been trumped by the fact that Northam changed his position on one issue. Which, by the way, is a totally theoretical issue since there still is not a single sanctuary city in the state! So it’s not as if Governor Northam would be driving around the state ripping down “Harrisonburg Is a Sanctuary City” signs. There are none! WTF is the matter with these people?
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So stupid, so unnecessary.
