The idiom “thinking outside the box” is commonly used. It’s safe to say that most people have the same idea about what it means.

Merriam-Webster defines it as such:

And then there was an expose of Michele Morrow that appeared last week from The Daily Haymaker, a conservative outlet, that seems to be trying to soften the image that Morrow has built for herself through a history of ideas and views that certainly are not “controlled by rules and tradition.”

On The Daily Haymaker site is a “blog roll” with links to other outlets that carry the same ideology and ideas as TDH. They include Breitbart and Turning Point USA (Steve Bannon’s old employer and Charlie Kirk’s current endeavor).

The article itself is more of a campaign plug. And it offers no ideas and solutions that could define Morrow as someone who “thinks” outside the box.

Here is just a stock image that represents that idiom.

Light bulbs for ideas and a hand to show someone who understands the “insides” of the box.”

From the TDH article:

But doesn’t “thinking outside the box” mean that one understands “the box” and what’s inside the box? That means knowing the inner workings, the machinations, the different viewpoints that various stakeholders (beside taxpayers) have about public education.

Doesn’t “thinking outside the box” about public education mean that one understands how public education works to begin with so that she can step outside of that arena and think critically about public education?

But what Morrow has shown is that she does not have an understanding of how public education works and her past posts on Jim Carrey’s use of adrenochrome from child traffickers, witchcraft in Twix bars, Q-Anon conspiracy theories, and public executions of public officials are not indicative of someone who thinks “outside the box.”

It shows someone who is out of bounds.