In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger ran very much as a moderate Democrat. And that got her elected.
But, as is almost always the case with Democrats, she was in fact quite a bit further Left than she intimated during the campaign. Once she got into office, she very immediately (within days) implemented some extraordinarily Lefty policies. And people were aghast at how extreme she actually was. Virginia citizens simply did not expect that. They got taken.
But this describes an important lesson: Democrats virtually always run as a far more conservative candidate than they actually are. It is a ruse, a scam. They know very well that if they run as who they actually are they would never get elected, so they pretend to be something they are not. It is really just an extension of what virtually all Lefties do.
And that should be a lesson to the rest of us. When a Democrat appears to be “reasonable” and “moderate,” they very well might be lying. You simply cannot trust what they are saying. It is a violation of democracy itself because it does not allow the voters to actually choose what they want. Why can they choose? Because the Democrat candidate is lying about who they are and what they will do.
And THAT is one reason the Democrat leadership is so upset about what Spanberger has done. It has pulled the curtain away from the scam they are running. It has made voters much more cautious. And that kind of cautious evaluation is exactly what Democrats do not want. They want people to vote with their spleens, not their brains.