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Miranda Devine: Dems will roll out their perfect agent of subterfuge, Abigail Spanberger, in response to SOTU

Abigail Spanberger, the new governor of Virginia who has been tapped to deliver the Democrats’ State of the Union reply Tuesday night, is the perfect avatar for her party’s deception.

With her long blond bob, minimalist makeup, pinched face and brisk air, she looks like the sort of competent working mom you’d encounter at school drop-off in any affluent suburb. In other words, she seems like somebody you instinctively trust.

But don’t be fooled by appearances. Spanberger is an expert at subterfuge, having spent eight years as an undercover CIA case officer, aka a spy, under Barack Obama and John Brennan, in the era when Democrats turned national security back on itself.

Like Joe Biden, she posed as a moderate to fool willfully gullible voters and then showed her true colors the minute she took office.

The “national security mom,” who is being touted as a future presidential contender, immediately signed off on unlimited abortion and a gerrymander plan to entrench Dem rule, ordered law enforcement not to work with ICE and presided over the introduction of dozens of new taxes on everything from dog walking to Uber rides.

So much for “affordability.”

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As it was with New York’s new Mayor Zohran Mamdani, “affordability” is her code for spending more taxpayer money.

Mamdani at least didn’t pretend to be a moderate. His appeal is summed up by the cartoon of a grinning wolf addressing a mob of sheep: “I’ll become a vegetarian once I’m elected.”

His Marxo-fascism is out in the open.

“There is no problem too large for government to solve,” Mamdani declared in his victory speech, promising to........

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