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Analyst Charles Lipson's insights in The American Spectator are invoked to bolster this point. Lipson describes how the Democrat party's embrace of radical left-wing policies—such as open borders, sanctuary city policies, defunding the police, and no-cash bail—are deeply unpopular with the majority of Americans. These policies tend to distort urban realities, causing people to leave their cities en masse, an exodus often called "deurbanization."