re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I call it “radical centrism”: The idea the centre must always be the correct place to be (or both sides are bad), regardless of how bad one side is.

There is this belief in the Beltway media that the ideal period in US politics spanned from 1981 to 1993, because (they tell themselves) the parties would loudly disagree and slag each other in public, but then they’d retire to the backroom to congenially hash out deals over dinner and drinks. They want so badly for there to be a return to the sort of relationship that Ronnie and Tip had, where they would pose for the cameras are arch-enemies, but then would meet up at the WH to talk shop over scotch. Want to believe with all their hearts that there are deals to be made and peace to be found if only the party leaders would stop listening to the “radicals” in their ranks.