Stephen Farnsworth, a University of Mary Washington political scientist, said Virginia is feeling the same shock waves that have hit national politics. “One of the aftereffects of the Trump presidency has been greater willingness to abandon what had been political norms,” Farnsworth said. “To pick and choose which school boards and which elected officials you want to punish by shortening their terms, why that’s fundamentally a violation of the way this process works.”

Youngkin’s move to force Loudoun school board elections called ‘troubling’ (The Washington Post)