Virginia Gov.-elect Ralph Northam greets supporters at an election night rally in Fairfax, Va., on Tuesday. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Democrats swept the New Jersey and Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races in Tuesday’s election, which is the best news we’ve had politically in a long time. The day began depressingly enough with more revelations about Texas shooter Devin Kelley and the litany of those abused at his hands – spouse, child, pet, superiors – that had somehow eluded national data bases thanks to the negligence of the U.S. Air Force.
You know what that tells me? It tells me that if you are a white man in this country, you can still get away with a lot, whereas if you are a woman, a child, an animal – forget it. And I don’t want to hear that guns don’t kill people, people kill people and that, furthermore, guns can stop bad people with guns, as the president keeps Trumpeting. Anecdotal and statistical evidence doesn’t support this. What if those who went after Kelley in a pickup truck with a shotgun had been mistaken by police as the shooter and an accomplice? It’s lunacy.
But today at least, sanity prevails, the sanity of the rational, the sanity of the resisters, the sanity of those who are not Trump.
The backlash is just beginning.