Virginia Democrats Just Showed Republicans How to Win! And We Should Pay Attention

Virginia Democrats just played the best game Democrats play: unity.

When their guy, attorney general candidate Jay Jones, was exposed for sending horrific texts wishing people dead and calling them “evil” and “fascists,” they didn’t flinch. They didn’t condemn him. They didn’t distance themselves. They didn’t demand he apologize or step aside. And he’s literally running for office.

They closed ranks. They said nothing. And just like that, the story died.

Republicans, meanwhile, are doing the exact opposite… again. Right now, conservatives are spending all their energy attacking each other over who associated with whom. Tucker Carlson interviews someone controversial? Scandal. The Heritage Foundation president doesn’t denounce Tucker hard enough? Scandal. Megyn Kelly won’t say she hates Tucker and suddenly everyone’s parsing who might “secretly agree” with someone’s ideology? Scandal.

No one’s even being condemned for their own words anymore, only for their proximity to someone else’s supposed thought crime.

These constant purity tests aren’t new, but they’re exactly why Republicans lose cultural ground. Democrats do not cannibalize their own. They do not turn on each other when the media demands it. They circle the wagons, refuse to feed the outrage machine, and the scandal disappears.

We could learn something from that.

When Democrats face a PR crisis, their response is always the same: silence, solidarity, and survival. When Republicans face one, we immediately start writing each other’s obituaries and burning down our own base.

If we want to win again — not just elections, but the narrative war — conservatives have to stop mistaking internal destruction for moral clarity.

Because Democrats aren’t beating us with better ideas. They’re beating us with better unity.