America recently learned that Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, sent texts wishing death on a political rival and his children.

Someone who fails such a basic test of personal decency is obviously unfit — morally and perhaps psychologically — to serve as any state’s top law enforcement officer.

But apparently it’s not obvious to everyone. Although Democrats, including Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger, condemned the remarks, not one called for Jones to withdraw from the race. Not one.

That’s as shocking as the remarks themselves. Democrats stand united in supporting a man who wished death on his opponent’s child.

Extremism won’t be stopped by appeals from the other side of the political divide. Democrats must be policed by Democrats. But to their shame, they simply refuse to do it.

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