Well that didn’t take long. Progressive Blue Virginia is literally flipping out over Northam’s Washington Post interview calling for bi-partisanship (despite what had to be the nastiest and most vicious campaign in Virginia history). To wit:
This morning’s Washington Post has an interview with Governor-elect Ralph Northam that is stirring up a ton of conversation on social media and, I hear, among Virginia Democratic delegates, State Senators, politicos, etc. First, a few highlights, followed by some of the reaction that jumped out at me (bolding added by me for emphasis).
What follows is a nearly two-dozen long litany of Democratic progressive angst over Northam’s demurring on Medicaid expansion, abandoning plans to engineer a Democratic-controlled House of Delegates, and even advising freshman freshwoman freshtrans freshperson (?) Democrats to get to know and work alongside evil human beings their fellow Republican legislators.
The greater question of how Republicans are expected to work with progressives who actually believe conservatives are “evil” aside — how is Northam going to bring his Democratic base to heel?
Given the fact that Northam bent the knee to just about every progressive special interest during his campaign, no one is holding their breath. Yet Northam seems to instinctively understand that if he is to have a legacy as governor, it will have to be under the conditions where Northam breaks with his progressive fringe — and none other.
…and only now, the progressives are starting to figure it out?
Heh.
UPDATE: TownHall picked up on the teenage angst.
