Oh believe me it is, you hit the nail right on the head. I grew up there and finally escaped 6 years ago. It IS without question the a-hole capital of the world, no question whatsoever. You could not pay me enough to live in NYC again, I get physically ill just thinking of going back there. People think Berkeley is leftist? Try New York city. Just as one example, around 15 years ago I was eating dinner in a Japanese restaurant with my elderly parents when my father said something about Bill Clinton a leftist overheard and didn’t approve of. The leftist proceeded to come over and spill my fathers drink then proceed knock his dish off the table, then said something about Bush “killing retarded people” after which I stood up and smashed the guy in the face knocking him back and I probably would have done more but my mother had a heart condition. The employees came over and broke it up, the cops were called, they arrested the leftist. Just one example of the kind of people you run into there.
You’re lucky it was the leftist that got arrested. Now in Minneapolis you would be arrested for assaulting the leftist, who was merely exercising his right of political free expression.