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It is amazing that someone could be so lacking in self-awareness that she doesn't realize that the core of the problem is not that others are right-wing, intolerant, misogynistic, or whatever, but simply that she herself is insufferable.
In one of her earlier posts, Ms. Marcotte blames the controversy on the "tin ear" of her right-wing critics. If she cannot understand why her posts would seem offensive to probably more than 80% of the public, then she is the one with the tin ear. If she aspires to help Democratic candidates, I suggest that Ms. Marcotte would benefit from more, not less, exposure to competing viewpoints. Otherwise, she will end up as Pauline Kael who, after George McGovern's thrashing by Richard Nixon, famously said, "How can that be? No one I know voted for Nixon."
