Every pundit out there - and Yang has definitely positioned himself as a pundit - is casting this election as "all hope for the future of the Democratic Species" against "Trump." Nobody is looking at this as "Clinton's most loathsome neoliberal apparatchik who already did the job from 2014-2018" vs "a sensible and qualified old-school businessman." I mean, fuck yeah he blew the critical race theory whistle all day and all night but this is not a ZOMG Marjorie Taylor Green is in the governor's mansion situation. I saw exactly zero predictions that McAuliffe was going to win. None. Not a one. Zero. The only democrats who thought this was a lock are the ones that think the Democrats are a viable brand.Tuesday night the political world was stunned by the victory of Glenn Youngkin as the next governor of Virginia. Youngkin is a Republican who won a state that Joe Biden had won by 10 points just 12 months earlier.