Not only is Jay “two bullets” Jones unfit for office, but he’s probably an unstable neighbor, the type parents don’t want around their children. His victory against Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares casts a foreboding shadow over the future of politics, where partisan tribalism has overtaken rationality. It’s truly a sad day when assassination culture wins.
And it’s not as if there wasn’t a viable alternative to Jones. Miyares has a strong record as attorney general, and from all evidence and my personal interactions with him, he seems to be a moral man. In case it needs to be said, he also didn’t express sentiments about wanting to murder his political opponent or see children die in their mother’s arms.
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Given the solid alternative candidate, I wonder if the Democratic parents who robotically voted for Jones threw up a little in their mouths at their polling stations and felt the need to shower when they returned home.
Virginians were certainly made aware of what kind of person Jones is. How anyone, particularly people with children, could vote for him remains a mystery to me. The power of the party’s sample ballot seems to have transcended individuals’ ability to think for themselves. It’s becoming an American tragedy.
My thoughts are with the Gilbert family today. The objectively worse candidate Virginians just elected as attorney general, who is literally responsible for upholding the rule of law, shared his wishes to commit atrocities against their family.
On Aug. 8, 2022, Jones reportedly sent several abhorrent, and now viral, texts to Republican state Del. Carrie Coyner about shooting then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert. He wrote, “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets in the head.”
Especially in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Jones’s fantasy of killing his political rival is shocking and morally repugnant. But his reported hopes of the young Gilbert children dying in their mother’s arms should put him beyond redemption in politics and maybe even in his friendship circles.
Jones showed his hand — that he is likely to use power to commit heinous acts for political ends. His death-murder dreams were based on such objectives. He texted, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”
When Coyner interviewed with the Virginia Scope to discuss the 2022 text message exchange with Jones, she also said he mentioned in a 2020 conversation that it wouldn’t be terrible if more police officers died. During the interview, Coyner said he said, “Well, maybe if a few of them died … they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.”
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That interaction wasn’t over text, and Jones denied it, of course. But he’s proven that he completely lacks a moral compass, so he certainly wouldn’t feel obligated to admit it. Assuming he did say it, which I do, Virginians also elected an attorney general who believes it’s fine if law enforcement officers die because it serves them right.
Virginians woke up on Wednesday morning to some strange derivative of the movie Idiocracy, where a malicious moron, perhaps even a sociopath, was elected the state’s top police officer. As a conservative mother with children, I’m sad to say the election of Jones isn’t just upsetting. It’s terrifying.
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a contributor to Independent Women’s Features, the Federalist, and the Washington Examiner. She is a mother in Fairfax County, Virginia, an author, and the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network.