The week after this election, senior editor of Think Progress, Ned Reznikov, penned a screed online about his unfortunate experiences with his neighborhood plumber.

Here is the harrowing story, as quoted by roving journalist Michael Tracy.

He said, quote, I wanted to share an experience from earlier today.

This afternoon, I had a plumber over to my apartment to fix a clogged drain.

He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional, but he was also a middle-aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week's news.

And while I had him in the apartment, I couldn't stop thinking about whether he had voted Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home. I have no real reason to believe he was a Trump supporter or an anti-Semite, but in my uncertainty, I couldn't shake the sense of potential danger. This is real, folks. I was rattled for some time after he left. I'm very privileged insofar as this sense of danger is unfamiliar to me, and I know I feel much less acutely than a lot of other people right now. I'm still a straight white guy who can phenotypically, phenotypically pass for Gentile. Plus, my first name is pretty waspy. This is Ned Resnikoff writing the day after the election or two days. But today was a reminder that unambiguous, that ambiguous social interactions now feel unsafe and unpredictable in a way they never did before.

And even if Trump is gone in four years, I don't expect to ever reclaim that feeling of security.

That's just one more thing you voted for if you voted for him.

Ooh, okay then.

Certain radical leftists constantly attribute motives to random people without knowing those people.

Plumbers, it turns out, don't want to murder you just because they are plumbers.

It turns out many plumbers are even Democrats. People with southern accents are not out to

murder Jews en masse. If you feel like you're living in near Nazi Germany because a random plumber

came to your house at your request to fix your shower and then was polite but had a

different accent and different profession than you, you might be a political hypochondriac.

Well, stop hyperventilating and get out a bit more.

But the bubble only grows because people only associate with people with whom they agree, particularly

on the left. Conservatives were confronted with leftist ideas and leftists personally on a pretty

regular basis.

There's only one conservative cable news source, Fox News.

There's only one major conservative national news publication in the Wall Street Journal.

And even there, the reportorial side of the Wall Street Journal leans left.

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