Education, an issue that has favored Democrats for decades, has recently turned into a liability. jonathanchait writes on how it happened
Election reaction statements by politicians and interest groups may be the most robotic genre in the messaging business. Every outcome proves everybody was right all along. And yet the response to the Democrats’ underperformance in Virginia and New Jersey issued by Third Way, the moderate Democratic Party faction, raised half an eyebrow.
Zachary Carter, who until recently lived in Northern Virginia, notes that enrollment in the public schools in that fast-growing region has dropped over the last year. “Anecdotally, I’ve never heard so much anti-teacher sentiment in the region as I did during the pandemic,” he writes. “Every parent I talked to had at least one horror story, and I mostly talked to affluent, upwardly mobile, pro-public-goods liberals.
And yet this kind of response has made it difficult for liberals to acknowledge that maybe Republicans are focusing on schools at least in part because they detect genuine policy failures that have alienated part of the Democratic constituency. Of course, self-criticism is in perpetual short supply on Twitter. But education in particular presents Democrats with a unique liability. Schools are one of the few venues in American life where the political left can expose average Americans to its operationalized worldview. Teachers and school officials lean well to the left of the American public. And crucially, they face very little organized interest group counterpressure.
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