Youngkin won because VA Republicans bought in to a simple stereotype...and so are folks here.

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5. Youngkin won because the GOP can make up "issues" like CRT their media ecosystem supports them

Fox, Newsmax, OAN, hate radio all work on the same script on these fabricated issues as republican candidates.

They're probably all being paid by the same corrupt billionaires.

They all tell lies in a coordinated fashion and they are repeated over and over until the residents of Foxlandia all believe them. Then the residents of Foxlandia talk to their neighbors, co-workers, etc and some of them are dumb enough to buy into the lies.

The Democrats need to do a better job with messaging, but the biggest problem is that the GOP has a bullshit factory pumping out coordinated fantasy issues 24/7.

The Democrats don't have an adequate answer for this. They don't know how to argue with fictional problems. I make the mistake of dismissing some of these phony issues because they look so ridiculous to me.

They look ridiculous to me because I'm not immersed in the RW disinformation stream, but my wingnut sister in law is genuinely concerned about invasions, caravans and CRT, etc.