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Moms for Liberty Tanked at the Polls. This Guy Called It.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few years, ultra-conservative activists took aim at school boards, trying to shape curriculums to match their beliefs. But this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa, “parental rights candidates” lost handily. What happened?


Guest: Adam Laats, Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University.


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and geographical restrictions apply. Looking at election results this month, did you feel a little bit like I told you so?

0:40.0

Well, I don't think it's, I don't think I'm the only historian who tries really hard not to say I told you so out loud.

0:49.0

Adam Lots is a historian of the U.S. educational system.

0:55.0

Like, you know, every other historian, I try not to break out in sweat marks when I hear someone say the word unprecedented.

1:03.5

You're like it's all precedent.

1:05.9

Well, pretty much.

1:09.0

For Adam, what was especially precedented on election day was the way conservative educational ideas, which had really animated

1:17.2

Republican politics over the last couple of years, seemed to lose at the ballot

1:22.0

box.

1:23.0

Several political groups endorse various candidates in the race,

1:26.0

but now the board will be held by a progressive majority.

1:30.0

You may have noticed this, in one election after another,

1:33.2

candidates who ran for school board on a platform of parental rights,

1:36.9

tanked. These were candidates in Pennsylvania, in Iowa.

1:41.1

These were candidates who were endorsed by the notorious Mama Bears at

1:45.0

Moms for Liberty. The group did successfully push for book bans, school vouchers,

1:50.4

barring, teaching about LGBTQ plusplus topics but performed poorly on election night.

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