Taxi cabs are New York’s right-wing safe spaces on wheels

Self-employment comes with the dangerously right-wing attributes of self-reliance and discipline

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Conservatives in a place like New York — squirming daily beneath the iron heel of a newly hawkish progressive minority — will tell you, like gay hanky-codes of yore, all the right-wing dog whistles to watch out for on the streets. The American flag is a big one. The once innocuous sight of a stranger sporting the stars a…