With the decision last week to delay a promised vote on the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, this unfolding spectacle proves a point I have been making for years: The political center of America is underrepresented in the United States Congress, especially in the House of Representatives.
"Moderates must adopt the hard-ball tactics of the Left"
What the FUCK is he talking about are they really this fucking bent out over two or three senate members who won't vote their way? You fucking cheated through the entire primary!
The only reason progressives even matter is because your decrepit centrism can barely even beat Donald Trump on a good day! You can't play hardball when noone cares about you!
Democrats and Republicans just playing tug of war over the term "centrist". It doesn't mean anything more than that.
Everyone likes to pretend they are normal, reasonable, and popular and that their opponents are cringe, fanatic, weirdos.
Leftists would do well to use the term "Moderate Marxism" and juxtapose it against "Extremists in the Two Party System" every chance they get.
DC centrism worshipping policy wonks literally make me sick
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I think this is less and less true over time, as the political establishment lags farther behind the national consensus.
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That's largely what's changed. Social conservativism is drying up.
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