It’s tempting to indulge a bit of schadenfreude over the metastasizing crisis unfolding at the top of Virginia’s state government. Here we have all these Democratic politicians who’ve been quick to lambaste their political opponents as racists and sexists now desperately defending themselves against charges of behavior in their own past that is decidedly unbecoming. Ralph Northam’s woes, which started off the crisis, are especially likely to induce a smile. He won election in 2017 in large part by excoriating his opponent...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 08, 2019 17:15 UTC