re: #36 jcbeckman

So when are the moderates in the GOP going to get a clue and start a moderate party? If they really stake out moderate, middle positions, they should win elections.

That sort of thing doesn’t happen overnight. It’s easy, as demogogues on both left and right have shown, to draw people using extreme talking points. It’s easy to sell fear. The extreme left and right have co-opted the two major parties, and are using the mechanisms of power possessed by those institutions to bludgeon more moderate candidates out of races.

It’s harder to excite folks with a moderate position, especially when you’re attacked from either side.