RICHMOND, Va.—Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s insistence on Feb. 3 that no, on further consideration, that’s not him in the racist photo that appeared in his 1984 medical school yearbook did nothing to quell the clamor from his own party for him to resign.
In fact, the Democrat’s stunning about-face—at a bizarre news conference at which he admitted putting on blackface decades ago and appeared to briefly entertain the notion of doing the moonwalk for reporters—might have made things worse.
