The single most surprising election result on Tuesday night? For my money, and it wasn’t even close: Democratic challenger Jay Jones’s thumping—yes, thumping—of Republican incumbent Jason Miyares in the race for Virginia’s attorney general. Jones was a two-term member of the state House of Delegates—nothing special. In early October, news broke of text messages he’d sent a colleague in 2022, in which he said he’d shoot a prominent state Republican ahead of killing either Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot,