After eight years, Virginia has a Republican governor again. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a former business executive with no political experience, secured victory last November on the back of a campaign that emphasized parental rights, tax cuts, and law and order.
In particular, it was parents growing increasingly concerned about the transmission in schools of critical race theory (CRT)—a quasi-Marxist analytical framework that views America as systemically racist—that provided the crucial assist in Youngkin’s two-point win in a state that just a year earlier had firmly voted for Biden by 10 points.
