Our side is not organized. Otherwise we could "take over" school boards and elect governors that would reform schools and election laws etc.
Here in a school district the SF Bay Area, about 70 volunteers (including me) worked hard to elect a MAGA school board candidate. We canvassed and phone banked and showed up with the candidate at farmers markets. He won by 200 votes. School board seats can be flipped—it takes work but it can be done.
“Our side is not organized. Otherwise we could “take over” school boards and elect governors that would reform schools and election laws etc.”
It’s not that easy. We did that several years ago in my county. Elected three non-leftist school board members in a suburban county. The teachers union then ran the ugliest, most dishonest, and most vicious political recall campaign (and that was the nice part) I have ever seen to get rid of the three board members who were not union-elected flunkies. Only one of the three could have been considered a conservative. The other two were as middle-of-the-road as you could want. What made them unacceptable is that the union did not control them.
The union brought in hundreds of “volunteers” (teachers from elsewhere in the country on paid leave) to walk precincts and were swimming in dark money. It was like a huge asteroid hitting us. Nasty, ugly people who deserve to roast in Hell.
It takes more than organization. It takes tons of money and the willingness to be just as nasty and vicious as them when the campaign starts. It takes experienced candidates who will run for an office that does not pay a salary, knowing that they will be falsely demonized by a well-financed political machine and that thugs will show up in the middle of the night threatening their children.