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.
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