Indeed. For many people on the left, intellectualism is an exclusive club, whose members must be the kind of folks described in Stuff White People Like. It must

Indeed. For many people on the left, intellectualism is an exclusive club, whose members must be the kind of folks described in Stuff White People Like. It must be fairly embarrassing that Republicans are still having internal debates on what their party really means, what the government's role should be in a crisis, how to come up with a compromise between socialized medicine and a generally capitalist economy -- while the left has become far more boring and monolithic. Meanwhile, the extreme libertarian right and the extreme authoritarian right has seen a resurgence online, while your typical extreme liberal sounds like his ideas are decades old (because they are).