Was a Southern Poverty Law Center running false flag operations and is stealing from Whole Foods OK. We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined as always or at least some of the time by the right. Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, our old friend Dan Foster and first-time guest, Jonathan R. Puri. You are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast. Our sponsors this episode, are Ver, UATX, and a new book by our friend Arthur Herman, called Founders Fire. More about all the Moodoo Course. But for some reason, you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way. You can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. And if you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star

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I said anything. So Dan Foster, we had the big Virginia redistricting vote on Tuesday night. Real close

outcome there, just about two points.

Republicans lose.

Virginia passed this new outrageously gerrymandered map

is going to have some legal challenges ahead of it.

In fact, one judge has already ruled against it

or had an issue to stay, and then we'll see it'll eventually make it back up to

the Virginia Supreme Court. But if you're Republicans, you've got to wonder, why didn't you pour

more money into this race? This is four seats in effect, all in one go. And just for Democratic

purposes, this is such a big night because if nothing else happens in the midterms, net, net nothing.

No house seats exchange hands and the rest of the country are nets out to zero.

This alone is enough to win the House for the Democrats.

And the irony, of course, it's a purplish outcome, a very close

two-point margin. It wasn't a blowout the way it was in California when they passed their

redistricting measure. At the same time, they're going to get a deep blue map, more gerrymandered than

Illinois, almost as gerrymandered as Massachusetts, not quite. Republicans have zero seats in

Massachusetts, but they'll

have one in Virginia if this map prevails. What do you make of it? Yeah, I mean, I'm very annoyed by

the result. I voted. Turnout was really high in my, you know, deep, deep, deep blue Nova

suburb.

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