since the 19 seventies. and in the last 12 gubernatorial reelection s in virginia. only one has ironically enough, mcauliffe s narrow victory back in 2013. here s the basic situation. when a party is in power, as democrats are in the white house, it s often mobilizes the opposition party. part of the political gravity is held for decades. heck, look back to the 1930s. 1934 side which was an anomaly situation, when the democrats under roosevelt, got absolutely blown out in the 1938 midterm election. that s after they did all the new deal stuff everybody, loved it was so popular he was elected president four times, and even he went through the same kind of political backlash to his presidency, that were seeing last night. in many ways it s an unavoidable part of our political reality, in a divided country. here s another interesting angle in virginia, which is that, in many ways, republicans kind of turn back the clock a little, they nominated a very bush era style candidate.
shoddy. he said in facts. libelous under british law to say he knowingly, for one, used forged materials. he sued her over those claims that she made about him in her book. and they went to trial. and it ended up being a remarkable thing, that trial, because in that libel trial, she and her legal team literally had to prove the holocaust happened. over the course of ten superintense weeks, they systematically went through all of the fake sudo scholarship and all of the conspiracy theories and all of the forged junk, all the garbage promoted by these holocaust deniers on the far right. and they proved it all wrong in court. they proved that the holocaust happened and these far right nazi sympathizers were lying about it for political reasons. the holocaust denier guy, the guy who had brought the lawsuit, brought it specifically in england so his claims could have this kind of a trial, because he was so sure he would be vindicated and everybody would have to believe him now, he
A renowned historian, hurst study and, a few years before this lawsuit was filed, she had in fact published a book, on antisemitism. and it was specifically about the nazis had actually killed millions of jewish people during world war ii. she wrote a seminal book about that. and one of the most prominent promoters of that myth, a guy who tried not to look the part, he didn t just stomp around with a shaved head and jackboots giving nazi salutes. he wasn t that kind of a guy. he was a guy who took a pseudo academic, fake intellectual approach to his holocaust denial. he had a star role in her book and he sued her for libel, saying it was unfair of her to describe his scholarship the way she did, unfair for her to describe his scholarship as