Hah, excellent empirical support for my circled wagons tweetstorm from yesterday. Now I know how Dirac felt when they detected antiparticles and proved his theory. This is probably the most important bit of political geography to understand for the medium term.https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/971441150702755840 …
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Hehe, no because that’s my point. He has the capacity to write endless reams about exurbia and bobos and stuff without ever offering a proper new insight about any of it. He just provides a dull WYSIWYG tourist guidebook type commentary
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I find him insufferable on a good day but credit-where-its-due he noticed the political geography shift here as early as 2001 (post Bush 2 election analysis). His writing about it was banal and even painful to read, but he did get the electoral politics analysis right.
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I don’t know, it felt at the time like he was belaboring the obvious and others were moving on to more in-depth insights. I’ll give him credit for ‘exurbia’ and ‘bobo’ labels but he didn’t do much useful with them. More Tycho Brahe than Kepler or Newton at best.
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