I'm surprised at the amount of people who think the left are going to be around forever. When something as simple as education reform is a death blow to them, that should reveal how unstable and weak they truly are.
Remember, all their success is built off their opponents not reacting to them. That doesn't strike me as genius, more absurdly lucky.
The problem is, though, that it's harder to resist Leftism when Conservatism is sometimes/often Leftism simply delayed by 10-20 years.