Hope and Principles After Defeat: Virginia Students Stand for Freedom

In the wake of Democrats sweeping Virginia’s three statewide offices and adding to their majority in the House of Delegates Tuesday, many conservatives I know are downhearted, disillusioned, and depressed. Fingers begin to feel like pointing. And to extrapolate on the old expression, “Victory has 100 fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” I’ll add that defeat does seem to have many cousins telling it where it went wrong.

But not to sound like a Pollyanna, we need to remember the good in this commonwealth and in this country. Today, so many of my friends are looking for positive things in the conservative world to reinforce their belief that the future can still be filled with American exceptionalism.

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It is with that in mind that I share with you a conversation I had with two Virginia high school students who are boldly standing up for America’s founding principles from the Turning Point USA chapter they founded at Western Albemarle High School.

Having created one of the largest TPUSA chapters in the nation, two very bright and ambitious young men, Noah Coffin and Ollie Woodrow, have dedicated themselves to educating and training not just conservative students, but all students at their school about the constitutional and conservative values that helped shape the United States—free speech, free-market capitalism, and limited government, to name a few.

Their successful work, following the model of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, gives us inspiration that the future is not lost—and that there is a new generation rising all across the country that will not only keep that awesome spirit of American exceptionalism alive but will soon be turning this nation back around for the better.

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