Doing settler-colonialism is just normal, run-of-the-mill politics for a US Senator. Funding war crimes is baseline. Staunchly defending a military dictatorship in a Middle Eastern country is bog-standard.
Once you get outside the bounds of these historically centrist positions, you are engaging in "purity politics" and producing candidates who are "unelectable".
Doing settler-colonialism is just normal, run-of-the-mill politics for a US Senator. Funding war crimes is baseline. Staunchly defending a military dictatorship in a Middle Eastern country is bog-standard.
Once you get outside the bounds of these historically centrist positions, you are engaging in "purity politics" and producing candidates who are "unelectable".