THE RISE AND FALL OF GLENN YOUNGKIN

Less than three years ago there was no hotter politician than Glenn Youngkin, the newly elected Governor of Virginia. A Presidential nomination seemed in his future.

A wealthy private equity executive, he conveyed more a suburban everyman with his trademark red fleece and checked the right boxes on cultural issues. He was the choice of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Instead, he'll be leaving office later this year, largely a failure, substantively and politically. Whatever his attributes, political skill wasn't one.
"Politics is about bringing people together," notes Don Scott, the Democratic Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. "He's not good at that. Youngkin doesn't much like talking to people, it seems beneath him."
Other Virginia politicians, including privately some Republicans, are even harsher. Arrogant is a term tossed around in describing Youngkin.