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I think it's not a win in that the far right took advantage of school boards as a kind of undefended opportunity starting with the Tea Party--a bit like town meetings in New England or county boards and zoning commissions--and that era seems to be over, thankfully. Once people start paying attention to local government, the one thing that most of them don't want is a lot of unnecessary culture-war hassles. But as you say, the folks who are fully 'in' on culture-war are now pretty intensely against everything that passes for business-as-usual.

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Not sure why you think the GOP didn't do that badly in local elections--the Moms for Liberty folks are not the first to stir shit up, but they lost wherever they weren't running in a solid red locality, because people are really tired of the shit-stirring. (When that isn't stirring, things revert to the "all politics is tribal" status quo that kept you from being elected--sorry!)

The GOP caught the car that it was fake-chasing for decades and mostly the old operatives were correct that they didn't really want to catch it.

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