One day after his party took a licking, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin graciously invited his successor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, and her husband Adam, to join him and his wife, Suzanne Youngkin, for lunch at the Executive Mansion in Richmond.
That’s the Virginia way: turn swords into plowshares, and spears into pruning hooks.
On the other side of the aisle, Speaker Don Scott, looking at a hugely increased Democratic majority in the House of Delegates, did not gloat, and did not threaten, and did not promise a stampede of new ideas.
He said, in a news conference: “We can’t overreach. We have to be restrained. We have to be wise with the gift that the voters have given us. It’s going to be important for us to have a coalition that’s restrained, that’s smart, that’s disciplined and focused on what voters want.”
The vicious TV commercials are history. Now hands are reaching out to each other. If the good will can continue, Virginia will be the better for it....