Will the VA landslide set off a panic and a stampede of GOP retirements?

[Frodo]

I also think this election signals the beginning of the end of the Virginia Republican party.

If you mean as a governing party, I would tentatively agree.  They should get ready to head back into the wilderness...   

[Frodo]

The statewide races were not landslides by any means. The legislative losses were almost exclusively in NOVA, so I would presume some Clinton-Suburban Republicans might consider that when determining whether to run for reelection. While tonight was not good, it isn't time to sound the alarm that 2018 is going to be wave. If Trump cuts taxes, suburbanites will come home.

The problem with the tax plan is that it targets mortgage deductions and a lot of suburbanites have mortgages.

If that tax cut plan passes, it will be the albatross around the GOP neck that Obamacare was for us.