Hopefully things get better for both he and his family. Sucks that they've had to deal with threats just because he's an unabashed socialist.
i want to live in a world were he gets threats for being an unabashed imperialist soldier.
Sounds like he was ready to leave before he even ran for governor. He just thought he might as well give that a shot before he left.
Thinking fondly of the alternate timeline wherein we have footage of him finding out he won and he's deer-in-headlights like Trump on 8-Nov-2016.
I don't know what he was thinking with his Gubernatorial run. He ignored every concern about strategy, alienated the volunteer force that got him into office and completely lost the support of the DSA in favor of the Rose Caucus. Does he not understand you need the support of people to win elections? Was it just for vanity? Was he hoping he could win on merit of ideas alone, in a state filled up with defense contractors and hill insiders? He was a great legislator, but his stubbornness made him intolerable and unrealistic.
He learned absolutely nothing from Joshua Collins 2020. The Rose Caucus is where campaigns go to fucking die. I don't know what the hell he was thinking.
His wife is a founder of the Rose Caucus. Also, Lee Carter is a hardline Marxist.
If he was trying to get away from politics, he wouldn't be trying to become Governor. But being a delegate did indeed suck, he got paid shit for it: $18k a year, and had to drive for Lyft on the side to live, so I suppose he could have figured to go for broke and try to become governor as to end his political career in a spectacular failure. He considers himself to have had a healthy conscience, but I don't see letting neolibs dominate Virginia by being unrealistic sitting well with me.
