This neighbor’s children grew up with mine. We were once good friends. We socialized and traveled together. No more. But we are civil toward each other. I don’t remember ever talking with him much about politics, but I know him to be center- left — certainly no radical, let alone a revolutionary.
Curiously, my neighbor thinks I do not know what my former friends feel about me. How could I possibly not know? I regularly run across people who hate Trump as much as my former friends do. Either my neighbor doesn’t know that he lives in a bubble, or he doesn’t know that I do not. He can easily avoid conservative news. I, on the other hand, cannot avoid his sources of news because they saturate the air I breathe. I could not avoid them even if I tried. He can avoid conservatives, or turn conservative friends like me into erstwhile friends.
