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One lesson a lot of Democrats carried away from Virginia: Terry McAuliffe made the race too much about Donald Trump. When Trump’s not on the ballot, the argument went, it’s impossible to make an election a referendum on him.

Detasseling is a right of passage for a certain segment of Midwesterners; a baptism by corn. You grab the top of the corn plant, where pollen is produced—the tassel—and pluck it from the rest of the stalk, usually as part of a vast team of workers sweeping through multiple corn fields after a machine has done a first pass. After the first day, the middle-class kids would usually stop showing up. By the end of the season, only a handful of people would remain.

Pablo Larraín’s Spencer opens on a frosty field in England at dawn, military trucks chuntering in a line toward a palace’s kitchens, which are hung with signs reading, “Keep noise to a minimum. They can hear you.” With none of that precision, here comes Princess Diana, barreling down a country lane in her green Porsche convertible, running extremely late and flapping about with a map. A title card introduces what’s to come as “a fable from a true tragedy.”

Sometimes a thing is so true for so long that we become reluctant, out of sheer boredom, to acknowledge that it’s still true. The centrality of the Covid pandemic to every facet of our lives is one of those things. What’s happening to the economy? Covid. The virus explains the sharp fall-off in economic growth during the summer months, versus the robust growth we saw in the spring when it looked like the pandemic was winding down. Covid explains the simultaneous wave of resignations, which I’ve... Читать дальше...

In the Virginia Governor’s race, Terry McAuliffe ran against Donald Trump. Glenn Youngkin ran against Virginia’s public schools. Education trumped Trump.