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> Can it really be this controversial to propose that the US left hurts itself
> by being a bubble, an enclave, unto itself?
Again, there is not a single metropolitan area in the U. S. (that includes surrounding suburbs) that can be described as a "bubble" or "enclave" of leftists. New York City? They elected fucking Rudy Giuliani! There is no spatial segregation of leftists in the U. S.; leftists spend every day mixing it up with "ordinary people", unless you arbitrarily define "ordinary people" as anybody to the right of George Bush.
Miles