Terry McAuliffe didn’t “think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Virginia parents didn’t think Terry McAuliffe should be governor. On Tuesday night, they elected Glenn Youngkin.
The Republican establishment appears to have missed the message. “Americans don’t want Socialism. PASS IT ON,” declared House Republican leadership in response to Youngkin’s victory. But “socialism” had nothing to do with it. The Youngkin campaign did not portray McAuliffe — a run-of-the-mill corporate Democrat — as the second coming of Che Guevara. It focused on education: mask mandates in schools, radical ideologies such as Critical Race Theory in the classroom, and the Loudon County School District’s coverup of a rape in a transgender bathroom. Suburban mothers did not flock to the polls to stop the workers from seizing the means of production; they did it to protect their kids.
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