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Politics: We've been arguing for some time that if you want to find intolerance, extremism, hate and bigotry in this country, it's thriving on the left. The past week provides several bits of fresh evidence of this.

First, there's the ABC News/Washington Postpoll published last week that found just 28% think the Democratic Party is "in touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today." Even among Democrats, only slightly more than half (52%) think the party is in touch with people in the country.

It's not as if President Trump or the Republicans do that much better. The poll found that 38% say Trump is in touch, and 32% say Republicans are in touch with the people.

Nevertheless, it's a shocking finding, given that Democrats have spent decades portraying Republicans as out-of-touch extremists who only care about the rich. Or, as newly appointed DNC chairman Tom Perez put it, Republicans "don't give a sh-- about people."

The New York Times fretted in an editorial that "for the first time in memory, Democrats are seen as more out of touch with ordinary Americans than the party's political opponents."

Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, called it a huge wake-up call. "Having two-thirds of the country think that your party is in la-la-land, that's a bombshell."

In fact, IBD has for years been pointing out the Democrats' drift to the fringe, using data from the IBD/TIPP poll and voting records in Congress.

As for the ABC poll being a wake-up call, the party's leadership has given no indication that it's even heard the phone ringing. Last we checked, the same people who drove the party to the fringes are still in charge.

Next we have a lengthy article in the left-of-center Daily Beast on Sunday by respected demographer Joel Kotkin, titled "The Arrogance of Blue America," in which he details how liberals have grown increasingly isolated from and intolerant of those who don't live in deep blue urban centers." Many in the deepest blue cores" are, he writes, "developing oikophobia an irrational fear of their fellow citizens" and are "abandoning the toiling masses."

"The argument made by the blue bourgeoisie is simple," he says, "Dense core cities, and what goes on there, is infinitely more important, and consequential, than the activities centered in the dumber suburbs and small towns."

Kotkin concludes his biting article by saying that progressives need to "leave their bastions and bubbles, and understand the country that they are determined to rule."

Despite such entreaties, the left appears to be retreating deeper into its bubble.

When CNN's Jake Tapper asked smug liberal comedian/political commentator Samantha Bee this weekend whether there is a "smug liberal problem," her response was: "I don't think there is."

Meanwhile, a survey of Dartmouth students published last week found that not only are liberals smug, they are far less tolerant of other viewpoints than Republicans on campus.

More than two-thirds of Republican students at Dartmouth (69%) say they'd be comfortable with a roommate who had opposing political views. But only 39% of Democrats said that. Nearly half of Democrats said they'd be uncomfortable with a roommate of a different political persuasion; just 12% of Republicans said that.

"It's unfortunate I wish we had more political diversity," Dartmouth College Democrats President Charlie Blatt said. "I think the dialogue is good." Even if Blatt believes this, many of her fellow liberals on campuses around the country clearly would rather shout down and assault people who'd provide that diversity.

This intolerance is not just limited to "free thinking" college campuses, it shows up everywhere these days on the supposedly tolerant left. When The New York Times hired Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Bret Stephens as a columnist, liberals went ballistic.

After Stephen's first column ran, which focused on global warming and in which he argued that "treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts," liberals started canceling subscriptions and the Times was forced to defend itself for publishing such environmental blasphemy.

Times' executive editor Dean Baquet said on Sunday: "Didn't we learn from this past election that our goal should be to understand different views?"

Apparently not.

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