By Robert Knight, Guest Columnist, Patriot Post, June 15, 2021
Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times. His latest book …
As part of the “blue tide” that swept Virginia in recent elections, officials in one county have pursued an aggressive leftwing agenda that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would admire. Nowhere has the transformation been more evident than at the school board.
Once upon a time not so long ago, Loudoun County, Virginia, was the most conservative county in the Washington, DC metro area.
An exurb outside the Beltway with a high-tech corridor rivaling California’s Silicon Valley, plus the Washington Football team’s headquarters and Dulles Airport, Loudoun’s sprawling suburbia is supplanting farmland like super-charged kudzu.
The eastern part is home to more than 100 huge, gray “data centers,” through which more than 70% of the world’s internet traffic flows. America Online was based here in its heyday, alongside other tech giants feeding off Washington’s proximity. …