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I am not in a bubble. I've UKIP voting, Putin-admiring, anti-vaxxers in my personal (not just Facebook) friends. A possibly tragic thing is that Corbyn is the first Labour leader in 3 decades who hasn't been significantly at a remove from the ordinary populace. At some point in the 80s, the Tories captured the populist press and Labour abandoned it. Since then, significant sections of the population who aren't convinced Tory voters have moved in the Trump/UKIP/Conspiracy-Theorist direction - towards leaders who, however mad, didn't publicly sneer at them or label them "deplorable".
But Labour having long lost it's communication channel to the general public, may not be able to persuade them that they now have a leader who doesn't sneer at them.