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One tweetstorm that perfectly captures the problem of being walled off to other communities
“Coastal elites” are in a bubble. So are white working-class Americans. See the full story (and the rest of Patrick’s tweets) here.
This is what I’ve seen in France too, where the National Front makes disproportionately high scores in some rural areas where there are zero immigrants. It’s easy for populists to exploit this fear of the unknown to convince people that “staying among us” is the best option.