Virginia leadership goes up in flames

The political crisis in Virginia spun out of control yesterday when the state’s attorney general, Mark Herring, confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax. With Governor Ralph Northam’s career already hanging by a thread over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, the day’s developments threatened to take down all three of Virginia’s top elected officials, all of them Democrats.