Jason Miyares wrote down what most Virginia Republicans have only been saying in private.

The former Attorney General took it to the New York Post on August 14 and laid out, in five steps, how Virginia Democrats are dismantling the Commonwealth’s turnaround. The week it ran, the Governor’s own firefighters censured her.

Miyares ran Virginia’s legal department for four years. He is not guessing at what changed. He is comparing a state that delivered $9 billion in tax relief to one now looking at roughly $37 billion in proposed new taxes, a carbon tax, a payroll tax, and mandatory collective bargaining for government employees.

He Wrote It on August 14. Her Own Firefighters Had Censured Her by Then.

The timing did the argument a favor.

The same week the piece ran, the firefighters union censured Gov. Abigail Spanberger over collective bargaining — a formal rebuke from organized labor, delivered to a Democrat governor eight months into her term, by the people her party spends every cycle promising to deliver for. The censure then carried into national trade press.

Days earlier a crowd at the Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention booed her, and her online defenders answered by insulting Southwest Virginia’s schools. Her team also spent the month claiming credit for tourism growth that happened on Glenn Youngkin’s watch.

She Ran as a Moderate. Eight Months In, the Bill Is Arriving in Fairfax.

Fairfax County pays for this in the most ordinary way there is. A carbon tax lands on a power bill. A payroll tax lands on a paycheck. A hiring-cost increase lands on the small contractor deciding whether to bring on a fourth employee. None of that arrives as a headline. It arrives as a number that is bigger than it was last year.

Meanwhile the state budget is still unresolved, and Spanberger spent last week discussing the delay with the Virginia Association of Counties — which means Fairfax County planners are building a budget without final numbers from a government her party controls outright.

Miyares Said the Quiet Part in the Largest Paper in the Country.

Give him the credit he has earned for it. Plenty of Republicans have described this administration in careful, hedged language that offends nobody and persuades nobody. Miyares put his name on a plain verdict in a national paper, and eight months of record backs him up.

Democrats hold the Governor’s office, the Senate, and the House of Delegates. They wrote the tax proposals. They failed to land a budget on time. They lost the firefighters. Miyares wrote it down.

Spanberger cannot succeed herself, so she never faces Virginia voters again. The General Assembly that passes her agenda is on the ballot in 2027. Read the Miyares piece, then decide what you want that ballot to look like.