 Well, folks, we had some really important elections take place tonight and I wanted to get to the results Um, I think that you already know if you're watching this video that it wasn't a great night for Democrats or Progressives and the race that I was watching the closest was the mayoral race in Buffalo, New York between India Walton and Byron Brown Which in theory should have been over when she defeated him in a Democratic Party primary But as you all know, he launched a sore loser writing campaign So we learned the results of that race tonight But first I want to get to the gubernatorial race in Virginia because the ramifications for that are pretty broad it sends a huge message about the Democratic Party and How it's looking come 2022 and not good because in the race between Terry McCullough the Democrat and Glenn Yonkin the Trump Republican Well, it's been called for Glenn Yonkin who narrowly defeated Terry McCullough and he did not run a Substitutive campaign. It was all culture war nonsense Critical race theory this cancel culture that and it was enough He elevated the salience of those non issues in voters minds because the Democrat didn't run a substantive campaign This is a corporate Democrat who's an ally with the Clintons. Terry McCullough was a governor of Virginia before and I guess that Democrats didn't have anyone else to put up and The Democrat lost because not enough people were inspired perhaps in that race or just nationally by Democrats because look at what's going on right now But you're not gonna be surprised to learn That it's the left who's being blamed for Terry McCullough's loss Heather K. Gold tweets out dem members are already texting me blaming progressives for debacle in Virginia and Blake Houndshell tweets out some in Biden land are already asking themselves if the president has allowed himself to be tugged Too far to the left while in office and those voices are likely to get louder now So of course when all else fails blame the left. It's their fault not the fault of the corporate Democrat Now it's not just the left who's getting blamed because on Amazon BC according to Chip Gibbons They are blaming increasing likely Democratic loss in Virginia on Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan So, I mean you see so many weird Rationalizations here. None of them are based on policy substance whatsoever I do want to get to demographics here because that's crystal ball says the wine mom give it and the wine mom Take it away because as Sahil Kippur tweets out Virginia in 2020 white women 50% voted for Biden 49% for Trump, but in 2021 white women went for Yonkin 57% to 43% That's a 15 point swing to the GOP in this group So that's just a small hint of what we can expect in 2022 if there's already this big of a swing in at least this one state I am expecting a bloodbath for Democrats in 2022. So they Should use this time very wisely make sure they do electoral reform in the form of Banning partisan gerrymandering make sure you do voting rights reform They're not gonna do that and as a result they're gonna get wiped out and Trump is likely gonna win again in 2024 But before I get to ahead of myself, I do want to get to the race in Buffalo So when it comes to third-party candidates and right in campaigns They usually don't win because we have a first-past-of-post Winner take all majoritarian electoral system and once you win a primary if the district leans in your party's direction You're gonna win So I think that it was reasonable to assume that India Walton was the favorite to win The problem is that in the sore loser right in campaign that Byron Brown ran His campaign was funded by Republican donors He had big money on his side and guess what even if he was running a right in campaign It paid off because it looks as if Byron Brown is going to defeat India Walton 59 to 41 Percent now at the time that I record this the race has yet to be called There's still less than 70% of precincts reporting So I'll post the final results if I have it by the time this video goes up But this proves that this notion of Democratic Party unity is a fucking sham it goes one way and That's not in progressives favor Unity means if a progressive loses in a Democratic Party primary you shut the fuck up fall in line and endorse the progressive or endorse the person who beat the progressive But when the corporate Democrat loses, it's fine. You don't have to Try to unify everyone you don't have to rally support for the opponent who beat you You can run a sore loser campaign and take Republican money and win somehow It's sad because this isn't just about Buffalo in my view I think we desperately need a leader a National leader to a leader to emerge on the left and India Walton was someone who I viewed with potential But now it appears as if It's over. I don't know what happens next. I hope that she stays engaged and maybe she runs for Congress or something, but Byron Brown ran a right-wing campaign and he defeated India Walton It goes to show you that with big money Anything is possible even overcoming our electoral system, which is a two-party slanted system so I can't Pretend as if I'm surprised because I knew that the deck was stacked against India Walton Even if this is a right-wing campaign, he had a catchy slogan right down Brown and he had money most importantly But on top of that to see the way that corporate Democrats and Democratic Party Loyalists will deflect when it comes to the gubernatorial race in Virginia I Mean I'm not I'm not gonna pretend to be like super exasperated and flustered because I knew that this would be the case Again, whenever it's convenient. They're gonna blame us and they're gonna come to the wrong conclusion Even if they don't blame us, they're gonna assume that maybe they Move too far to the left or wasn't Corporateist enough or didn't lean into the cultural war issues and also condemn critical race theory in our schools either way This is really bleak shit, but it's it's kind of predictable We live in a system that is fundamentally broken to its core and things just continue to get worse and even when we have a small opportunity to fix some of the issues Democrats completely bungle it and This shows that voters aren't enthusiastic about what they're doing. I think that this in a way is a Temperature check for how you know voters more broadly speaking feel about the Democratic Party nationally and Joe Biden should see this as a wake-up call, but odds are he probably won't so either way I'm gonna try to not let this Get me to down Even though I think it's inevitable the more that I think about it But I'm gonna try to distract myself and I encourage you to do the same as well Because you know, it's it's America, right? So you can always expect the dumbest thing to be the likely outcome and that was the case here in Both of these races