INGERSOLL: Spanberger Spins A Siren Song As She Melts America From The Inside Out

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 24: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on February 24, 2026 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Spanberger is serving in her first year as governor and is the first woman to hold the position in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Photo by Mike Kropf/Getty Images)

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Greetings Dear Reader,

The country was in large part founded on the brains of Virginia men (and Pennsylvania and Massachusetts if we’re fair).

So let’s talk about one Virginia woman …

ABIGAIL SPANBERGER’S CREEPING APOCALYPSE

The most extreme human fantasies about the apocalypse cast it usually as a sudden and irreversible rubicon.

A giant space rock crashes into us. An engineered virus with no natural immunity that kills in days. Nukes on the horizon.

In terms of a political apocalypse, Abigail Spanberger is more like one of Homer’s sirens. Her song has lulled the electorate to sleep. She creeps softly over us, a bug whose hard exoskeleton boasts a layer of warm human skin, injecting our institutions with low-grade acid that melts them from the inside out.

There was hope for her initially, when she won a House seat. In a closed-door meeting........

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