(John Hinderaker)
This story has exploded over the last couple of days. It involves the race for Attorney General in Virginia, where Democrat Jay Jones has been leading in the polls:
National Review Online reported that when Jay Jones was a delegate in 2021, he acted in an incredibly demented manner. The Virginia House was honoring the memory of a long-time African American delegate who had just passed, and the Virginia Speaker, Todd Gilbert, a Republican, as well as other Republicans, had said the usual salutary boilerplate statements to praise the deceased.
Jones then sent a series of text messages to a Republican delegate, where he scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made by Republicans. “If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, “I will go to their funerals to p*ss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something.” Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he’d shoot Gilbert “every time.”
When the Republican delegate expressed her alarm, Jones called her to explain his reasoning over the phone, where he shockingly doubled down, and later he tripled down with more vile texts, which, among other things, called Gilbert’s children “little fascists” who deserved to die.
When the news broke, Jones responded by saying that “Trump-controlled media organizations” were to blame. Republicans have called on Jones to resign, which he has refused to do. I take it that Democrats are watching the polls before offering advice.
My sense is that Democrats say things like Jay Jones did to each other, all the time. Thus, they were not shocked when his disgraceful texts came out. The mistake Jones made was telling a Republican legislator what he really thought.
Like most conservatives, I used to believe that liberals were misguided. I’ve changed my mind. Now, I think that gives them too much credit.
UPDATE: President Trump has made his views known:
The question, of course, is whether Virginia voters will care. More about that later.
MORE: How, exactly, do rank and file Democrats feel about wishing death on the young children of Republicans?
Jay Jones is not going to drop out of the race. Why would he? He knows that the majority of Democrat voters agree with what he said and are happy that he said it. Fantasizing about murdering conservatives and their children is not a scandal on the Left. That's how they all feel.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 5, 2025
Is it how they all feel? Well, certainly not all. But a large majority? It seems that way. After all, how many Democrats expressed outrage at the outpouring of glee from so many liberals after Charlie Kirk was murdered? Maybe there were a few. If so, I missed them.
ONE MORE: This ad sums up the situation beautifully. Note, too, the extremist Democratic candidate for Governor: “Let your rage fuel you.” So, the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
Brilliant Ad
pic.twitter.com/V6SIvANhYY— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) October 5, 2025
If we want to be optimists, we can hope that Jones’s outrage will drag Abigail Spanberger down with him.
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