The rabid far-left scares normal people; their outlandish, brutish behavior (and headlines/article like this one) push people into the Republican party. Their overreach is also scaring the Left’s leadership - the 4 month siege on Walker and Wisconsin’s Capitol (and the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprang from it) are not the optics that the Democratic Party wants in the 2016 general election - but Walker attracts their attacks like bees to honey - and it draws people out of the shadows to stand up and vote R. (Obama has been very helpful in this regard too.)
Good point.
One thing that stick in my mind is that since these are taxpayer-supported schools, there are a LOT of taxpayers who should have every right to ask why their $$$ is going to fund training kids in how to hate them.