Glenn Youngkin ought to stand up and thank the liberal legacy media for his victory. The Republican may never have beaten Democratic former governor Terry McAuliffe had it not been for major outlets dumbly insisting that school parents weren’t actually upset about everything the educational establishment was doing to their kids.

McAuliffe, by all appearances, believed the media giants and behaved as if the uprisings against failing, dishonest, and ideology-overrun school boards were some sort of fake, astroturf Fox News mirage. And thanks to that out-of-touch arrogant belief, McAuliffe persisted in running against school parents. That may have been his fatal mistake.