Democrats turn messaging over to activist fringe

 Glenn Harland Reynolds:

After Terry McAuliffe’s stunning defeat by challenger Glenn Youngkin in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, conservative journalist Matt Walsh tweeted, in part: “I want to thank the Loudoun County school board. None of this would have been possible without you.”

He was right. Virginia Democrats weren’t so much defeated as self-destructive, and much of the destruction was caused by school boards.

Loudoun County in Northern Virginia has been the scene of many political fights over curriculum and gender policies. After parents showed up at meetings to criticize the influences of critical race theory, some teachers and school board officials organized online campaigns to discuss harassing them and even hacking them. (One school board member, Beth Barts, has resigned, and a special prosecutor is investigating her ongoing removal case.)

Then the school board knew about – and covered up – the sexual assault of a female student in a girls’ room by a now-convicted, gender-fluid assailant, likely because it was afraid that would bring its expansive transgender policy into disrepute.

When the father of the victim grew angry at a school board meeting, members had him manhandled, arrested and then cited as evidence by the National School Boards Association, in a now-retracted letter, that angry parents were some sort of domestic-terrorism threat. This claim was amplified by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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While parents are children's primary educators and should have the greatest influence over kids’ education, Democrats’ activist base seems to think that kids should belong to the state, not their parents. When McAuliffe said during a debate, "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach," it confirmed a lot of people’s worst fears.

Had McAuliffe done the sensible thing and said that of course parents have a right to express an opinion on their kids’ education, the story would have died. But he said the opposite. Had Garland declined to take a public position on angry parents in local meetings, the story would have gotten far less attention.

But neither one could help himself. The Democrats have allowed their party’s messaging, and its signature policy moves, to be controlled by their activist fringes.
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I suspect that Democrat leaders agree with their activist fringe, and that is their main political problem at this point.  The lying liberal wackos of Loudon County are representatives of today's Democrat party in much of the Congress.  All you have to do is look at their current legislative agenda to see they have lost touch with reality.

See, aslo:

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