Partisan politics like this have no place here; that's clearly what this article is (as the second paragraph explains the main thrust here is that "nerdy libera

Partisan politics like this have no place here; that's clearly what this article is (as the second paragraph explains the main thrust here is that "nerdy liberals all over the country" are having a laugh at this). At any rate, although the visual paradigm they are using looks very much like a Venn diagram, I'm not sure overlapping circles, especially when they aren't being used to delineate overlapping and exclusive groups of a population, necessarily only have that one interpretation. It seems more like a bad visual choice for a series of A+B=C sorts of statements. Anyway, take your politics elsewhere.