Despite my policy to refrain from commenting about the goings-on in states other than my own, I wanted to call attention to the editors’ of the Washington Post’s consistency:
If there’s one thing that former president Donald Trump has taught us, it’s how toxic to the system it is to question the legitimacy of election results. Mr. Trump continues to lie about his resounding loss in 2020 and insist that other Republicans accept the lie, too. In the Virginia gubernatorial race, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee, has indulged Mr. Trump’s falsehoods while seeking not to embrace them so wholeheartedly as to alienate suburban voters who don’t buy them. Mr. Youngkin, a fresh face in politics, had the opportunity to tell voters frankly that the system worked in 2020. He chose not to.
That made it all the more disappointing to hear Mr. Youngkin’s Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, fanning the flames of suspicion over the weekend among his supporters. Campaigning with Stacey Abrams, who lost a race for governor of Georgia in 2018, Mr. McAuliffe said Ms. Abrams “would be the governor of Georgia today†had not the state “disenfranchised 1.4 million Georgia voters before the election.â€
“That’s what happened to Stacey Abrams,†Mr. McAuliffe said. “They took the votes away.â€
If you’re going to complain about something when someone you despise does it, you should equally complain about it when someone you would ordinarily support does it. They engage in a bit of special pleading but good on them for being consistent.
