The People's Line

The People's Line

The new centrism

Centrist politics haven't disappeared - they've just rebranded.

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Carl Beijer
Aug 08, 2021
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Climb into a time machine, travel back fifteen years, and ask a leftist who “centrists” are, and you would almost certainly learn that they:

  1. Are partisans of a powerful “establishment” that dominates our politics, represented in the government by figures like Bill Clinton, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter, and in the media by everyone from Andre…

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