I can't say I've read any of those books. I can say though that as someone who is more conservative working in tech living in New York City, this doesn't match

I can't say I've read any of those books. I can say though that as someone who is more conservative working in tech living in New York City, this doesn't match my daily experience. Pretty frequently, I hear flippant remarks where people assume that everyone else in the room must agree with a particular view or else must be an idiot. And my experience from trying to break out of my bubble by reading left-leaning material is that even if there are examples of books out there in which a leftist tries to explain conservatives to other leftists, they seem to have little impact on the general discourse. I don't think it's a simple case that the Overton Window has moved to the right. When one reads for example the Democratic party platform of the 1990's, many of the proposals are more similar to what some Republicans argue for today. In any case, my point is: maybe conservatives are to blame. Conservatives are roughly half the country. If the author wants to make some change, he'll half to convince at least some of that half. Speaking only to the favored half won't change anything.