by Gordon C. Morse
It’s mid-summer and hot. Let’s imagine the fall, cooler air and assume James Carville is right.
“The Democratic Party,” he wrote in The New York Times, “is steamrolling toward a civilized civil war.”
Carville would hold off the fight temporarily. Need more Democrats in Congress, he says. Focus on the 2026 congressional elections and seize upon President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which Carville calls “a big, steaming doggy nugget of epic proportions.”
After that, game on.
Virginia could easily end up being a battlefield in the coming clash and how civilized will it be? You wonder.
Before that, a quick trivia question: Who ran Lt. Gov. Richard Davis’ 1982 campaign for the U.S. Senate?
James Carville. He got famous later and now claims soothsayer status.
But let’s go with it and, for the purposes of conjecture, declare Republican Winsome Sears an also-ran in her bid for governor in November. Many people have reached that conclusion and it naturally invites complacency. But I’m just postulating here.
Because assuming that Spanberger has the fall election in the bag, you may also easily conclude that the present meager Democratic majority in the Virginia House of Delegates will become less meager.
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