Progressive Bubble
Seattle, Island of Blue
The next four years will challenge Seattle, says Knute Berger. Are we up to the task?
On election night 2016, Seattle learned just how much of a national outlier it is. During the past eight years, the uplifting message of hope personified by Barack Obama led us to believe our own PR: that we were a national role model for social justice, the economy, reform and progressive politics in general. Our…