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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Replying to @vgr
is this trolling you too hard?pic.twitter.com/l9iIUDF0xP
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Replying to @danlistensto
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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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
That Brooks ever called exurbia a utopia is making me grind my teeth even now.
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There is utopianism in the self-perception which he accepted uncritically, hence missing the Trumpism brewing. As @jonathanglick said in another reply, they were left behind and convinced themselves it was their idea. The utopia aestheticization in Hallmark Christmas movies.
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