Over in the most recent issue of the print magazine, I wrote about Virginia’s new Democratic governor Abigail Spanberger, and concluded, “‘campaign as a centrist, govern as a progressive’ is the oldest trick in the book, and it might as well be the unofficial motto of the modern Democratic Party. Considering how Richmond is changing, we may want to nickname that bait-and-switch maneuver ‘pulling a Spanberger.’”

This morning, the Washington Post unveiled the results of their first major poll of Virginians in the Spanberger era. Unsurprisingly, roughly half the state is perturbed to find that the Democrat who ran as a sensible centrist has triggered “Progressives Gone........

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