a larger right-wing effort to chase out members of the “reality-based community” from local school boards, town councils, and health authorities. These are the institutions that the Dem leadership has traditionally ignored as too smalltime to merit their time and support and that the GOP leadership has successfully leveraged as grassroots power bases and farm-team talent-spotting venues. Taking them over or rendering them ineffective is just another element of the American right’s attempt to undermine liberal democracy.
