Virginia’s Next Governor and the Threat of a Constitutional Crisis
State governors command the National Guard. That means more now than it has in a long time.
Gubernatorial races can quickly become proxies for nationwide grievances and allegiances, and Tuesday’s neck-and-neck election between the Republican Glenn Youngkin and the Democrat Terry McAuliffe for the governorship of Virginia is no exception. But in addition to the substantive policy disagreements or politics as pastime, people across America should be monitoring the outcome of this race for another reason: Governors command the National Guard, and after the January 6 riot, the country saw the National Guard defend our constitutional order.
I’m a resident of Virginia and a longtime proponent of the values of classical liberalism—individual
