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Virginia’s Election Was So Boring
Everyone’s trying to tell you the Earth moved in Virginia last week. It didn’t.
The results of last Tuesday’s election in Virginia and New Jersey were boring.
President Joe Biden’s plummeting approval-rating is boring.
The fact that California is losing a Congressional seat for the first time in its history is boring, as is the fact that Florida and Texas both gained seats.
Sen. Joe Manchin is boring; Sen. Krysten Sinema is equally boring.
NYC Mayor-Elect Eric Adams is also boring.
Recently, we’ve witnessed a collective rush to find novel new outrages and grievances in need of redress. The elections in VA and NJ, the population shift from blue to red states, Biden’s slipping approval, Manchin, Sinema, and Adams are all inconvenient reminders that society’s boring, tired-out old grievances remain alive, well, and as important to voters as ever.
That these old problems bore us silly doesn’t change reality, as we saw Tuesday. Because rather, these subjects don’t bore us at all: They bore media companies, who can’t use anything as dull as fentanyl overdoses, rising crime, higher taxes, inflation, immigration, the economy, the quality of public education in America, high heating costs, or the price of gasoline to create a viral media…