Taking some of these institutions back from the Left is an impossible task. Harvard will never be a place where conservative faculty feel free to speak their minds. The New York Times will never tolerate conservative views in its paper outside of a few token voices in the op-ed pages. Liberal billionaires and millionaires have too much money for conservatives to push back successfully against shareholder activism.

But conservatives can still win elections, just as they did in Virginia this year after Glenn Youngkin made parent control over public schools the defining issue of his campaign.

Public schools are still governed by democratically elected school boards. Public schools are one institution conservatives can take back from the far-left elite.

So it is encouraging to see that Republican state parties nationwide are moving to add partisan affiliations to local school board elections . National conservative think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and Manhattan Institute are also involved, as well as many state think tanks such as Ohio’s Thomas B. Fordham Institute.