I get the sense that in a nation primed to believe "government doesn't work" since the Reagan Revolution, Democrats raise the salience of a lot of culture war issues when they seemingly prove that belief. Beyond the frustrations about schools, media coverage has been inundated with stories on the inability of a party to that controls the House, Senate and the Presidency to get "any" of their President's agenda passed. That reported disfunction (I think) is seen as a continuation of the perceived government ineptitude and incompetence that many parents felt locally.
I get the sense that in a nation primed to believe "government doesn't work" since the Reagan Revolution, Democrats raise the salience of a lot of culture war issues when they seemingly prove that belief. Beyond the frustrations about schools, media coverage has been inundated with stories on the inability of a party to that controls the House, Senate and the Presidency to get "any" of their President's agenda passed. That reported disfunction (I think) is seen as a continuation of the perceived government ineptitude and incompetence that many parents felt locally.