re: #62 Coracle

I don’t believe you can build a rational middle from either party at this point. The GOP has demonstrated open hostility to rationality, and the Dems are in the middle of a classic majority party internecine war.

Well, that is an honest answer. Thank you for that.

I agree everyone in the middle should fight the fringes to get them to shut up. But local tactics often overrule wisdom (See: Somme). American democracy is a ‘zero sum game’ with a time clock. An odd creature for sure.

So each side has a very serious vested interest in keeping their fringe voting in their direction while trying to maintain some distance for plausible deniability.

It is what it is.