centrism

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/20/2022
  

  Lily Geismer: The Clinton Legacy is Well-Intentioned Failure

  "I wanted to challenge the common view that the story of US politics after 1968 is solely about the rise of the right, and that the Democrats adopted the policies that they did as a way of playing electoral defense."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/8/2021
  

  If the Dems Turn to the Center, They Will Lose to Trump

  by Samuel Moyn

  In the wake of the Virginia gubernatorial election, centrist Democrats have revived calls for austerity as the only safe electoral strategy. They will find out how wrong that analysis is if they are successful in pulling the Biden administration away from a broad agenda. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/4/2020
  

  The Never Trumpers Have Already Won

  by Samuel Moyn

  Never Trump's historic role turns out to be not among Republicans so far, but within a Democratic Party whose members have chosen to convert enemies into friends, setting up a guardrail against the capture of their party by the left.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/7/2020
  

  When Centrists Sounded Like Bernie

  by Ed Burmila

  If today’s centrist, establishment Democrats are unwilling to hear warnings coming from the left, perhaps they will heed their own advice from an earlier era.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/7/19
  

  One Big Thing the Dems Get Wrong About Warren

  by John F. Harris

  The political establishment loves the center. But it’s the radicals who end up writing history.