The term Blue Dog Democrat seems to have a new definition being that of bait and switch. Recent history has shown how the left governs, while campaigning in the name of bipartisanship. Distractions allow the public to forget just how far the left is willing to go. This bait and switch turn’s their words into an empty suit to normalize the left’s intentions. Each state’s general public is the unfortunate recipient.

Every cost a Northern Virginia household is absorbing right now was set in motion by a decision made years earlier, by people whose names are on the vote. The defining feature of that record is not complexity. It is delay — and delay is the one thing that lets a governing party campaign against the consequences of its own choices.

Loudoun County’s own budget figures show data centers generating over a third of the country’s General Fund revenue. The Board of Supervisors has lowered the real property tax rate every year for the past decade, from $1.145 per $100 in 2016 to $0.805 in 2026. The full breakdown is on the county’s website.