Republican Virginia state Senator Mark Peake on Monday informed the Old Dominion State GOP Central Committee that he’ll resign from his other position as chair of the party effective December 31st following the apocalyptic defeats suffered last month, the Washington Post reports.

“While it seems like we are in the cold, dark depths of winter right now (we are), I am supremely confident that Republicans will continue to fight for the values embodied in the Republican Creed, which can lead us to a victorious spring,” Peake wrote in his letter, which sounds more like a “Come on team! Let’s turn those frowns upside down!” than the “I’m quitting eight months into my chairmanship because we got fucking destroyed and someone’s head’s gotta roll” it actually was.

The Post notes that expectations were low going into last month’s contests given the suckery and campaign inertia of Lt Gov Winsome Sears as gubernatorial nominee, the now-resolved government shutdown being correctly blamed on Republicans in DC by the hundreds of thousands of federal workers in the northern parts of the state, and just the thermostatic nature of Virginia’s off-year cycle (almost) always being blowback to the party in power in Washington. But even those expectations were exceeded in their low-ness as deranged Dem Attorney General nominee Jay Jones defeated incumbent Republican Jayson Miyares and Democrats flipped 13 GOP State House seats – some of them fairly red – leading to Peake’s figurative ritual self-disemboweling.

Wait, maybe the “victorious spring” line is about the expected referendum to nuke three-to-five Republican-held congressional districts? Lol, really hope that’s what he meant. That’d be so fucking funny if that’s what he’s pepping his party up for: A big win on some random Tuesday in March.