Sparky’s is not the sort of place you take a girl you are trying to impress. It’s the place you go to enjoy a $3 Miller Lite while you smoke Marlboros and meet neighbors.
It’s also the sort of place wry liberal journalists liked to mock after 2016: a working-class dive bar in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Nothing could be more trite than a reporter traveling to a Pittsburgh-area diner or a Northeast Philly saloon and asking the blue-collar workers if they still support President Donald Trump.
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