On Friday’s Morning Edition, NPR lamented the “surge” in book bans across America. Apparently, democracy works best in America when educators get to assign left-wing propaganda about how America is deeply racist, and no one objects. The headline on their website:

1 parent is responsible for a book ban in North Carolina

But even their summary undercut that assertion: “In a North Carolina school district newly controlled by Republicans, it took just one parent’s complaint to remove a book from the curriculum.”

So one parent started a political movement. If that one parent spurred the opposite movement — resisting a book by say, Clarence Thomas or Thomas Sowell — they’d get the Conquering Hero treatment. But here, it’s terrible. At least the parent was quoted: