"The scope is a cultural shift from ego-centrism to eco-centrism," she says.
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Obama's almost militant commitment to economic centrism and his unwillingness
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The biggest problem for centrism is not practical but intellectual.
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But reading Schultz's praise of Beto's centrism, I suddenly understood.
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Centrism saved the Democrats, or so goes one popular narrative.
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But civility and centrism weren't enough to carry the day.
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I believe and have written that centrism deserves more respect.
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If you want to beat Trump, centrism is not the answer.
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How do you define centrism and what does that actually mean?
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He represents the kind of centrism the party could really use.
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Clinton's opponents legitimately disagree with her hawkishness, centrism and dubious ethics.
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Because of that geo-centrism, investors likely miss lots of good ideas.
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Sci-fi, Tarkovsky, gender politics, World War II, STALKER, centrism, subs vs.
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Kansas is typically conservative but also has a tradition of pragmatic centrism.
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"It's not so much that he is appealing to centrism," Coaston said.
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The contents were unremarkable: news articles about the political perils of centrism.
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Clinton, who remains to many Sanders supporters an avatar of corporate centrism.
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Too often, journalists confuse centrism with fairness, objectivity or common-sense truth.
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It's best to define centrism on substantive grounds, not merely political ones.
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The left's war on centrism bodes ill for Democratic chances in 2020.
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Well, maybe the problem is the centrism you noted a minute ago.
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A country that is confident in its sensible centrism goes to the polls.
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Bennet offers a brand of politics unlike others in the race: fiery centrism.
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Many felt her split-the-difference centrism sucked the life out of politics.
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Deference to the status quo has always been a consequence of vital centrism.
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Democrats, he insists, don't have to choose between Hillary centrism and Bernie progressivism.
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We are centrist Democrats, which is very different than other strains of centrism.
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This might in part be public-TV centrism, but it's also an ideology.
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"Centrism is canceled," cracked Ms. Bartholomae, in the lightest moment of the exercise.
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And her radical breed of centrism could be a headache for the party.
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But it is now time to embrace alternatives and centrism from both sides.
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This elite centrism, in practice, amounts to a kind of milquetoast nationalist libertarianism.
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Bill Clinton and Tony Blair bonded over Third Way centrism a decade later.
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In fact, while she was in the legislature, her centrism irked some Democratic colleagues.
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The focus on practical knowledge allows reform-centrism to deal with three big problems.
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He represents a distinctive strand of Democratic politics: a sort of social-justice centrism.
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Tuesday's victories certainly can't be explained as a simple function of Northam's perceived centrism.
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Lance voted against his party's tax and health-care plans as he pushed for centrism.
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A Labour loss will prompt calls for the party to return to Blair-style centrism.
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Even gay male critics dismissed the role of Brokeback Mountain's masc-centrism in its reception.
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Elizabeth, I want to give you an opportunity -- DERSHOWITZ: The reality is centrism is important.
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But Clinton's continuing centrism on foreign policy shouldn't obscure what she's proposing on domestic policy.
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But the solution is not Tony Blair–style centrism, which Barone touts in his column.
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Feinstein's "brand of centrism is decidedly out of fashion in both parties," Schnur told CNN.
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And even if such "centrism" were on the rise, Asian-Americans won't lead the way.
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Sinema's message of moderation and centrism appears to have resonated with voters in the end.
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Square Trump's monomania with Beto O'Rourke's effervescent sort-of centrism built around nothing in particular.
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Centrism is more about process than ideology, a faith in practical politics over moral absolutes.
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Above all, I think she has defined centrism in relative terms rather than substantive terms.
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Well, I would have rather seen the blockbuster show Afro-centrism and its impact on fashion.
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Centrism Most of our social and political questions are not as zero-sum as partisans suggest.
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Swapping meat and potatoes for tuber tartines may overwhelm those flirting with early-stage plant-centrism.
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But his trajectory over the past six years is a kind of parable for American centrism.
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One cannot condemn centrism and yet demand that centrists support the left turn in Democratic politics.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of leader-centrism, then, because it makes things easier.
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Black voters aren't insisting on centrism in the manner white Americans tend to think of it.
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Jonathan Cowan: Like with liberalism and conservatism, there are many different strands and brands of centrism.
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Centrism as imagined in this article failed in the last election and will continue to fail.
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And bland '90s centrism is exactly what was on offer from Klobuchar at Monday's town hall.
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And Mr. Cordray's meek manner can imply a centrism that belies much of his policy platform.
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Though I wouldn't endorse Collier's manifesto in every detail, his "hard centrism" has much to offer.
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Clintonian neoliberal centrism is on the way out, as the party moves toward Bernie Sanders's economic populism.
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Often times, centrism is confused with being in the middle, or splitting the difference between both sides.
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And among many younger and more liberal voters, the Clintons' reputation for ideological centrism has little appeal.
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It starts (as centrism did) with an overwrought promise: He'll crack the case wide open for you.
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To be sure, these early sparks of centrism could get snuffed out as the establishment rolls forward.
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After years of torpid centrism under Mrs Merkel, the sharp differences between the candidates portend an intriguing contest.
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To begin, we analyzed the preferences of Democratic base, finding increasing support of progressive politics rather than centrism.
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Mr Emanuel's pragmatic centrism may have looked increasingly unexciting for many Democratic voters in the current political climate.
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" AS SEEN ON FOX NEWS NO MORE &aposPRETENDING&apos FROM DEMOCRATS - "Centrism got associated with the Clinton kleptocracy.
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As a result of the 2008 crash, even the Clintons have had second thoughts about 1990s-style centrism.
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Across the state, new left-wing candidates are standing up to save New York from Cuomo-style centrism.
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One thing I can say, however, is that neither centrism nor progressivism is what it used to be.
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This is the problem with pizza centrism: It futilely tries to please all parties and ultimately disappoints everyone.
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How to protest Macron's reformist centrism while also defending the pillars of liberal democracy and a tolerant society?
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It was also a confirmation of the audience that exists for actual left politics, not watered-down centrism.
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The recent rise of right-wing populism indicates a widening crack in the neoliberal consensus of ideological centrism.
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They frequently cite his policy centrism, which many associate with his time in President Barack Obama's White House.
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His words have been varied, but his purpose has been consistent and his point simple: liberalism isn't centrism.
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Then there's the success of Blue and White, which proves there's a future for democratic centrism after all.
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Ms Warren and Mr Sanders argued that their bold proposals would motivate voters more than Mr Biden's centrism.
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He offers Democratic voters a similar brand of centrism to Biden but in a more youthful, vigorous vessel.
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I think the future of the party is much more people like Doug Jones and Conor Lamb representing centrism.
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They view Blair-era centrism as a historical aberration in a party created out of the trade union movement.
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But regardless of which factions win this fight, it's clear that Clinton-style centrism is dead in the water.
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The bigger concerns he hears, Mr. Drahozal said, are tied to Mr. Biden's age and his tendencies toward centrism.
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Whether her centrism is a strategy to propel her further along in her career is something for the future.
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For moderates, it means acknowledging that Sanders' pugnacious authenticity appeals to some swing voters more than wonkish centrism does.
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But on close examination, Buttigieg's foreign policy departs very little from the suburban-friendly centrism of his domestic plans.
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A media critic inveighs against the bias toward centrism, which inspires me to come up with my own list.
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My own inclinations are centrist, but not a "centrism" that cares more for Goldman Sachs than the opioid crisis.
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Since 1992 Democratic economic policy has been rooted in technocratic centrism, meant to smooth the rough edges of the market.
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He wanted to usher in a new and lasting era of liberalism or centrism, depending on how you define it.
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It muffled debate within a stifling "grand coalition" centrism, with the left and right ruling more or less in concert.
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The only way out of our crisis of leader-centrism is to forego the easy enthusiasm we hand to leaders.
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While opposition to Trump is helping to swell Democratic ranks, the truth remains that excessive centrism will dishearten core voters.
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I am not talking about a politics of concession or compromise or conciliation or mushy centrism, God help me, no.
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Nor is it a plea for centrism, which in an earlier era had been a defining feature of Dionne's work.
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Are its politics closer to Ocasio-Cortez's unapologetic liberalism (she identifies as a democratic socialist) or Biden's more-pragmatic centrism?
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There is no doubt about the brand of politics Klobuchar is selling — a practical centrism rooted in her Midwestern upbringing.
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But that's more easily said than done when progressive paragons proclaim that old-fashioned Democratic centrism is the new fanaticism.
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A big problem was this kind of economic centrism that developed on both the left and right in various ways.
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But on a series of issues, Feinstein is changing long-held positions, at times overriding her time-tested instinct for centrism.
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It is possible, of course, that the centrism Clinton is known for would rear its head in her vice presidential choice.
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That isn't much for progressives chafing against Obama's cautious centrism and inclination for compromise, but it's certainly the best available option.
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Berlin — After years of Angela Merkel's formless centrism and the rise of the far right, is German conservatism making a comeback?
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His answer for the coming reign of Donald Trump is, well, his answer for everything—a return to long-lost centrism.
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But as a judge, he has a reputation for centrism more than for any particular approach to judging or ideological commitments.
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Together, they proudly represent a receding brand of centrism their respective parties' rank-and-file regard with increasing or outright hostility.
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In 22008, Democratic voters nearly rejected centrism outright, as the primary campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders proved more popular than expected.
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For one thing, Schattschneider and Burns were viewing the system from the heights of presidential politics, where centrism did indeed dominate.
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They'd have to take into account a broader swathe of the public, and that's good for centrism and good for democracy.
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Pride is being loud, being visible and actively resisting the gender binary and cishet-centrism that have tried to silence us.
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He has no signature idea, and we know little about his political positions beyond the mushy centrism he exhibited in Congress.
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The report is a manifesto for a new centrism based on what the authors call a "free-market welfare state" model.
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Before going further, I want to make clear that this is not a column urging Democrats to return to Clintonian centrism.
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Centrist bias, as I see it, confuses the idea of centrism (which is very much an ideology) with objectivity and fairness.
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Thinking has to be fresh: 1990's centrism, 1980's supply-side conservatism, and 1970's Nordic-inspired liberalism won't do.
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There is a place in our politics, however, for passionate centrism, where centrism is not a moderate point of view at all; instead, it is an exciting synthesis, a point of view that transcends left and right and gives voters bold policies that — while they may take elements from either left or right — are bound to no rigid ideology.
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Yet this often reinforces the dynamic: voters become frustrated by the colourless centrism of such governments, and drift further to the extremes.
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Both Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's far-right policies and French President Emmanuel Macron's technocratic centrism are struggling to move forward at home.
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This debate will play straight into Sanders's biggest campaign message so far: There's no time for centrism, no time for incremental change.
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But for many Democrats, swept up more by Mr. Sanders's liberal populism than Bill Clinton's centrism, the law is far less popular.
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He was nearing 80 yet perhaps also thinking that the addition of a fifth liberal would diminish the force of his centrism.
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Passionate centrism is designed to avoid simplistic extremist policy positions that are responsible for the sad polarization that dominates our politics today.
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While Labour's three election wins does suggest that such centrism can be effective, it is clearly not the only path to success.
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Janison: A Sanders-like "enough with the centrism" on issues; Crowley inertia, long term changes in the district, and Trump-baited energy.
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Buttigieg's centrism and moderation, to put it bluntly, is an act only liberals could think stands up to even the most cursory investigation.
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It has also never been less connected to ideological centrism, which was the formula in the 90s when we thought of everything ideologically.
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He also broadcast his centrism by emphasizing his ability to "bring people together on many sides of the fence" and by pushing Sen.
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When it comes to saving the planet for our children and our children's children, centrism and incrementalism are our enemies, not our friends.
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"His centrism is nothing more than a more economically liberal right, more respectful of human rights, more polished, less vulgar," Mr. Sternhell said.
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The inherent centrism, which I mean like less politically as much as like the way Mass Effect is designed as a video game.
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The exact nature and extent of Gabbard's political evolution is not easy to apprehend, especially since Hawaii is not known for political centrism.
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What They're Saying: Centrism and objectivity are their own ideologies; be smart; go deeper; cast off this false idea that politics is a game.
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Allies of Joe Biden, with his history of bipartisanship and working-class centrism, claim electability is his strongest case for the Democratic nomination. Sen.
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In The Guardian, Al From, the former head of the Democratic Leadership Council, urged Democrats to cling ever tighter to that sweet, sweet centrism.
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Northam is very much a member of the political establishment, but to argue that this was a victory for ideological centrism is not accurate.
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Rather than confront what Bennet calls the "crackup of ideologies," his section is selling a fantasy politics in which centrism is America's dominant ideology.
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Centrism requires a delicate balancing act, which Nixon, a man with many innate liabilities as a politician, turned out to be extremely good at.
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Tipirneni, despite her professed centrism, has been endorsed by two up-and-coming progressives in the House, Washington's Pramila Jayapal and California's Ro Khanna.
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Many leading California Democrats were immigration hawks in the early 2187s, finding it a resonant issue in the era of Third Way Democratic centrism.
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The practical obstacles to this kind of feminist-conservative centrism may seem substantial, but the practical case for odd alliances is just as strong.
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Manchin has a strong history with the state, though his brand of centrism might risk alienating actual progressives in the year of the Resistance.
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But her centrism and the implicit case for electability proved to be of little asset in a year when emotions have gripped both parties.
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In an era of progressive politics, Harris' big challenges have been to gain the trust of those wary of her centrism and prosecutor background.
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"Nietzsche's argument was that you had to move forward, not fall back onto ethno-centrism," Hugo Drochon, author of "Nietzsche's Great Politics," told me.
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"In 2020, Biden-style centrism will become a toxic and losing brand of politics in Democratic primaries," said Waleed Shahid, a left-wing activist.
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Finally, the hallmark of fanatical centrism is the determination to see America's left and right as equally extreme, no matter what they actually propose.
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Colvin is running a boots-on-the-ground campaign to try to convince Maryland's most conservative district to vote for his brand of centrism.
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But the time for centrism is long past, and we want our Democratic leaders to really be Democrats and really fight for Democratic values.
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Far from tying electability to centrism or moderation, voters said they cared about rhetoric, personality, energy, and momentum when deciding if a candidate could win.
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This requires re-engineering our institutions to foster centrism, moderation and compromise—to ensure the bridge can withstand the 21st-century loads asked of it.
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Not if they read the New York Times, where an op-ed today says if you want to beat Trump, centrism is not the answer.
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The things voters found appealing about social democracy are still on offer: consider Angela Merkel's pension-age-lowering, minimum-wage-introducing, environmentalist brand of centrism.
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Perhaps Bennet will do so yet, but his moves since Trump's election suggest that the intellectual diversity he seeks is really just a broader centrism.
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Sometimes he thinks that his moderation, along with the relative centrism of the Texas House, is being used as a foil for the Senate radicals.
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Robert Levine is a doctor who advocates for centrism in his spare time, and has self-published multiple books calling for a centrist third party.
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As Vox's Jane Coaston has argued on "The Weeds" podcast, Biden is effectively invoking the political style, if not the actual governing agenda, of centrism.
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Mr. Bellow has no intention of toning down the views of hard-liners he edits or retreating to a kind of "mushy centrism," he said.
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Macron has since faltered in his efforts to present himself either as the voice of centrism in France or as a leader for all Europe.
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If "moderation" or "centrism" means holding broadly popular positions otherwise marginalized by extremists in either party, then these prospective candidates don't quite fit the bill.
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Not that she should be expected to win, but if Swearengin has a strong showing, Manchin's brand of centrism could be in trouble, Kessler argued.
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In recent years, we have seen a rise in the number of voices clamoring for a return to an era of centrism, consensus, and civility.
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An examination of the narratives elites tell each other to explain their losses suggests that many elites, particularly Republicans, don't believe that centrism is electorally beneficial.
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But you can't change electoral math by turning back the clock, and this past election tells us there isn't a lot of enthusiasm for Clintonian centrism.
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In an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball Tuesday, Clinton again made an argument for political centrism: We've got to get back to the middle.
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Many on the party's right who had grown tired of Mrs Merkel's big-tent centrism feared they were in line for years more of the same.
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In South Carolina's First Congressional district, Joe Cunningham, who defeated Katie Harrington in the district held by Republican Mark Sanford, fought back by stressing his centrism.
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Galiza thinks the problem may be the male-centrism at any LGBTQ event, whether Pride or otherwise, that isn't "focused for queer women only," she said.
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"To say that you can have a politics of respect and civility is not the same thing as savoring a politics of mushy centrism," she said.
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He is co-author, with John M. Friend, of "How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics" (Potomac, 2018).
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And nearly every day, there's new evidence that this identity should be more egalitarian, and further left, than the Clintonite centrism Brazile herself has historically supported.
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What Schultz represents though, is a centrism that is not only out of step with the party's base but also with the larger electorate as well.
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For too long, Democratic leaders have convinced their fellow elected officials that bland, nonconfrontational and incremental centrism is the way to win elections and make progress.
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France's main center-right and center-left parties have largely collapsed, and Mr. Macron stepped into the void, offering a vision best described as nonpartisan centrism.
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What is striking, though, is that there is no larger appetite in the party to move fully toward the political centrism that marked Bill Clinton's presidency.
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We're in at least the fifth act of Democratic centrism, and Buttigieg seems poised to lead it no matter how well he does in the primary.
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But activists have taken issue with what they see as her centrism, especially when it comes to her opposition to Bernie Sanders's Medicare for all plan.
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Mr Macron's radical centrism, a political philosophy designed to bring the left and right together to build an open society against the forces of nationalism, inspired lookalikes.
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They might also decide that the difficulty of placing him on the liberal-conservative scale makes it impossible to draw any lessons about the importance of centrism.
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And because it is driven by young volunteers whom nobody has ever heard of, it can challenge the idea that it is a front for Blairite centrism.
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John Hickenlooper for his centrism too; Hickenlooper gave a speech decrying Sanders's brand of democratic socialism after the Vermont senator delivered remarks defending the ideology this week.
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Mr. Gyory said Ms. Nixon, who, like Ms. Teachout, has positioned herself as a strong progressive alternative to Mr. Cuomo's centrism, would face a similarly uphill battle.
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Why does Elon Musk refuse to kowtow to East Coast centrism and do these things when most of the country isn't sleeping or at a bar somewhere?
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But centrism in France has already failed on a policy level—what remains to be seen is how popular it will remain as a sheer political posture.
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Democratic Party elites like Bill and Hillary Clinton and this newspaper, which Mr. Moore considers an epitome of gutless centrism, are, among others, part of The Problem.
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Moreover, there's little reason to believe the silent majority of Americans are just waiting to be won over by one or the other party embracing milquetoast centrism.
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Her pragmatism is tougher than that, even if it will come across as especially frustrating to those who believe that centrism and civility are no longer enough.
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Her candidacy is a bet that Americans are ready to reject Biden-style centrism for a more radical platform on issues from student loans to climate change.
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My view is that the answer for the Democratic Party is more complicated than either a Clinton-esque "third way" centrism or a pure Sanders-esque leftism.
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Rather than castigating the chief justice for a partisan and inappropriate decision that effectively denied health insurance to millions of poor Americans, most observers praised his centrism.
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Truly populist figures like Mr. Bannon, Mr. Hanson argues, connect the president to his base and ensure that the president does not slip into an easy centrism.
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Clintonian centrism offers nothing to working-class voters other than what got them into the crises in which they have found themselves in the past quarter century.
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His first term was marked by Clintonian centrism, trying equally to appeal to the two distinct populations of New York: its rural upstate, and its urban liberals.
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If, as expected, Le Pen loses the final round of the French election on May 7, that will be yet another victory for the forces of centrism.
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You're comfortable blaming "economic centrism" for a lot of failed half-measures, but you go out of your way to defend corporate greed and the financial industry.
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Yet to prevail Clinton — identified along with her former president husband with centrism on economic policy — will likely need to incorporate more Sanders-style populism in her message.
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The 2016 primary also made clear that the centrism associated with Clinton's husband, former President Clinton, has become indigestible to a large swath of the Democratic Party's base.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was no plaster saint of civility or centrism, and he was often willing to earn a reputation as a disturber of the peace.
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Bland '90s centrism is not what most Democrats seem to want, even if the #NeverTrump conservatives who have been cautiously welcomed to our side tell us it is.
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In her column, Sullivan inveighs against the bias toward political centrism and notes that it often crowds out thought-provoking political views on both the left and right.
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If appeals to centrism lack a certain oomph, they compensate with an air of legitimacy, the ability to posit that your own view is the only reasonable option.
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From the perspective of left-wing Twitter, Hillary Clinton was a uniquely awful candidate whose failures stemmed as much from her policies (bland centrism) as from her style.
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Curiously, given the gap between Mr Macri's centrism and the Fernández duo's populism, the campaign so far has been bereft of ideas, says Sergio Berensztein, an analyst and pollster.
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But that in itself won't assuage the doubts about Klobuchar's ultimate chances of success: Do Democrats really want someone who leans toward centrism as their standard-bearer against Trump?
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But director / co-writer Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) and co-writer Michael Lannan (the show's creator) take Looking: The Movie's Patrick-centrism and put it to interesting work.
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I find this absolutely hysterical, not only because it's the actual real-life example of the learn to code meme but because it encapsulates the emptiness of Kamala's centrism.
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It's true that Booker has a record of centrism on some economic issues, particularly relating to education and finance, but he also co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution.
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The essay by then-high schooler Buttigieg praised Sanders, then a six-term 59-year-old lawmaker, for being a proud socialist in a time of poll-tested centrism.
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Where it mattered, the working class and middle class voters that make up the Democratic base did not feel moved to vote for Clinton's centrism and Wall Street ties.
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For one, the Democrats changed their policies, with Bill Clinton as the standard bearer for a new pro-business, neoliberal centrism that sought to win over the growing professional classes.
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" There's also "Ride the Fence" off Party Music, a teardown of political centrism and a rundown of Riley's leanings: anti-police, pro-union, "anti-watered-down drinks in expensive glasses.
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All this revived the sunny centrism which defined Mr Cameron's early leadership from 2005, much of which had been shelved as the financial crisis set in and harshened the mood.
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She's got a famously shaky bang and a litany of painful mom jokes but surprise surprise haltingly delivered standard centrism just doesn't seem to be landing with the voters. Weird.
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Mr. Sanders's revival has reshuffled the Democratic primary race, providing a counterweight to the shift toward centrism in recent months that has elevated Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.
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In a New York Times op-ed, Mark Penn, a Democratic strategist who helped Hillary Clinton lose to Obama in 2008, insisted the party return to the centrism of the 1990s.
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The Democratic Party's 153 tug of war between the merits of centrism and progressivism is one that Mr. Sitaraman and Mr. Buttigieg have been preparing for since their days in college.
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Better yet, the results suggest that centrism has more electoral appeal than both UMNO's Malay chauvinism and the Islamic zealotry of PAS, an opposition party that declined to join Pakatan Harapan.
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There's a groundswell of Democratic support for candidates who will push socialized health care and major action on climate change and who will break with centrism on immigration and social issues.
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After all, if the Labour Party has moved to the "Hard Left" that is because party members were disgusted by the failures of Blair's previous iteration of centrism, the Third Way.
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Centrism is about using reason and logic and common sense to evaluate policy on its face and to make a determination of what pragmatically is the solution to any given problem.
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Republicans argue that Ms. Sinema won by regularly voting for Trump priorities as a congresswoman, siding with the president more than some Republicans — a centrism no Democratic presidential nominee would espouse.
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But some Democrats have seen in his defeat further evidence that centrism is defunct and a more radical brand of opposition necessary, even if that is unlikely to succeed in the South.
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Eight years as Obama's second-in-command counts for a lot at the outset of a primary campaign, but a long record of compromised centrism isn't going to win over the progressives.
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According to " The Real Majority ," by Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, the 19683 election proved that, particularly in a time of extremes like the late nineteen-sixties, centrism was the winning position.
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Democratic centrism isn't just a matter of ideology, but is also motivated by political strategy, particularly the belief among Democratic political consultants that the path to victory runs through traditionally Republican suburbs.
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In many ways, Momentum's success is the culmination of the backlash on the left to the centrism of Labour under Tony Blair in the 1990s and the first years of this century.
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First, that populism is a reaction to the breakdown of community outside the liberal metropole, a breakdown that the fiscally conservative-socially liberal "centrism" of our leaders has worsened or left unaddressed.
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Supporters also say it is laughable that some liberals, particularly allies of Mr. Sanders, have described Mr. O'Rourke as a squishy moderate because of a congressional record that sometimes veered toward centrism.
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Democrats' attempts at "tough love" centrism didn't win them any credit across the aisle, while an increasingly empowered immigrant-rights movement started taking them to task for the adverse consequences of enforcement policies.
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But some Democrats have seen in his defeat further evidence that centrism is defunct and a more radical brand of opposition is necessary, even if that is unlikely to succeed in the South.
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They run a wide gamut of ideological stances, from the democratic socialism of Bernie Sanders to the reformist liberalism of Elizabeth Warren to the nostalgic centrism of Biden, Beto O'Rourke, and Cory Booker.
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De Blasio, who won a longshot bid for mayor in 2013, fashioned himself the progressive alternative to Cuomo's brand of centrism, but the governor seemed to delight in undermining him at every turn.
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In his campaign for president, Mr. Biden has faced steep skepticism from the left wing of his party over his perceived centrism on issues ranging from abortion rights to his dealings with Republicans.
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Biden's conspicuous centrism on this subject shows how much liberal consensus on fossil fuels has changed in the past few years, particularly as climate science has coalesced around the need for quicker action.
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Mr. Stone's view from the left is a break from the usual news media vantages on Russia, either tough-talk centrism or the defenses of Putin enablers-come-lately in the conservative media.
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Some moderate Nevadans have already turned a listening ear to the unoffensive centrism of Senator Amy Klobuchar and the starkly youthful energy of Mr. Buttigieg, who may have opportunities here to outperform expectations.
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But in many ways, they were worse avatars for Democratic centrism than Bennet, who crafted his "Real Deal" with an eye to what his colleagues in the Senate Democratic caucus would rally behind.
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While some on the left wing of the party worried that Mr. Perez would continue a Clinton brand of centrism, Mr. Nichols sees Mr. Perez's history of labor rights advocacy as an asset.
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Democrats' attempts at "tough love" centrism didn't win them any credit across the aisle, while an increasingly empowered immigrant-rights movement started calling them to task for the adverse consequences of enforcement policies.
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Long the face of centrism in France, with three failed runs for the presidency to his name, Bayrou, was pondering whether to make a fourth run when he was overtaken by Macron's dizzy rise.
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" – Author and political commentator Mark Steyn, on " Tucker Carlson Tonight ," saying much of the Democratic Party appears to be shedding an alleged longtime facade of centrism and embracing "the romanticism of the far-left.
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" It is written in Louis C.K.'s plain-spoken, self-deprecating style and quotes John McCain, advocates centrism and argues that Mr. Trump is not a real conservative: "He is not one of you.
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Finally, with respect to his centrism, Mr. Biden needs to pull off the trick, which dexterous politicians can do, of showing that he has nudged himself a bit to the left without sounding inauthentic.
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A collection of grass-roots groups called the Save Kansas Coalition pushed for a return to political centrism and brought attention to topics as diverse as Medicaid expansion and the method for selecting judges.
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If not exactly a false equivalency, it is perhaps a false vicinity: the belief that Trump's unmitigated bigotry is just a few degrees removed from Clinton's history of establishment ties and nineties-era centrism.
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What Schultz calls "centrism" is a vague repackaging of what centrist Democrats have been proposing for years, a vacuous ideology that makes sense to a small subset of elites but has no mass constituency.
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For many voters, this is reason enough to stick with a formula that has broadly served Germany well for the past 12 years: centrism, conflict-aversion and (to quote an old CDU slogan) no experiments.
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The result of the 2016 election, in which Hillary Clinton lost the presidency in part because her centrism failed to appeal to Midwesterners, shows the urgent need for a return to just such a tradition.
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After Chris Matthews, the beloved embodiment of MSNBC's establishmentarian centrism, compared Mr. Sanders's campaign to the Nazi invasion of France, Mr. Sanders's supporters began a drumbeat of criticism that helped lead to Mr. Matthews' ouster.
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By the time Sanders made his decision to run, last April, there was a restless base ready to support a candidate who broke with the perceived centrism of both the Clinton and the Obama Administrations.
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He is supported by party members that want a change from Merkel's centrism and were unhappy at some of her more liberal policies, such as her open-door policy during Europe's migrant crisis in 2015.
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If Democrats stand any chance at taking back congressional seats in November while likewise holding onto vulnerable congressional seats currently held by their own party, it is necessary that the party's message emphasizes centrism and unity.
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England in recent years has become home to a very real sense of London-centrism, as graduates, entrepreneurs, immigrants and property investors alike make a beeline for the capital, leaving the provinces to fend for themselves.
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Appeals to the people mix with fears of the people's powers; despite the professed centrism of most liberals, modern history does not lack examples of liberals siding with authoritarians when faced by unpredictable radical democratic forces.
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The challenge for modern-day centrism is to reject civility for its own sake and attack the cozy clubbiness of the political and economic elite with policies that will have real positive impact for struggling Americans.
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While many of them had moments — Tulsi Gabbard trumpeting her isolationism, John Delaney explaining and selling his centrism, Jay Inslee naming President Trump as the greatest threat to our national security — they were just that: moments.
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Her slogan in the last election — "For a Germany where life is good and we enjoy it" — about summed up the comforting combination of moderation, stability, centrism and decency that have rallied voters behind "Mutti" (Mommy).
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He set on championing the idea of moderation as a guiding philosophy in foreign and domestic policy and fought to entrench centrism in Iranian politics -- a cause to which he remained dedicated to till his last day.
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Four years, many achievements and very little credit later, a similar proportion is opposed to another turn with Mrs Merkel, whose flexibility and centrism deny her junior coalition partners the distinctiveness they need to retain their voters.
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The strength of centrism is sometimes seen as a negative -- that it is neither one extreme nor the other, so in the hyper-partisan world we now apparently live in, it fails to cut through the chatter.
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In a recent essay for Waypoint, Dante Douglas underlines the commonality of this player-centrism in games and their stories: The Grimoire offered you a way into the world of Destiny without making that world about you.
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Ms. Collins, among the few remaining voices of centrism in the Republican Party, is one of two Republican senators who have supported abortion rights and, in the past, have shown themselves willing to break with their party.
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The "clamor for centrism," according to Moser, risks deflating the Resistance, turning off nonwhite voters, and dampening the turnout that Democrats should be able to expect in November, given the level of Trump animus across the country.
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It was Mr. de Blasio's way of saying that even a pretense of Clintonian centrism was in disfavor at City Hall and that "a new progressive era," as he called it in his remarks, ruled the day.
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It can also be read as a larger tragedy of liberal centrism, of white feminism itself, brought low by its own contradictions, incapable of comprehending what it is that people don't like about its self-serving logic.
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Often times, these complaints amount to a kind of unrealistic centrism: a lament that the two parties just can't get together and agree on "common sense" solution to policy issues on which they have fundamental, principled disagreements.
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To this day, boring centrism remains the only battle-tested way for Democrats to win statewide races in conservative states — just ask Joe Manchin (D-WV), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), or Louisiana Gov.
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And while Obama's centrism here recalls the same "content neutrality" that led to Silicon Valley dragging its feet during the Russia and neo-Nazi scandals, Obama is right to be cautious about the state's role in solving them.
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The question of whether the centrism espoused by Buttigieg, Biden and Klobuchar is more in line with the nation's appetites than the sweeping changes sought by Sanders and Warren remains the biggest fault line in the nominating process.
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His folksy centrism and his extensive time on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made him a natural wingman for Obama, whose soaring rhetoric and inspirational biography launched him ahead of a slew of more experienced candidates — Biden included.
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Will I get to burn Halcyon's Corporate Board to the ground, and if I do, will I get a finger wagged at me by a design that, so eager to emphasize options, seemingly necessities a degree of centrism?
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The particular scenario of using women of color designated as radical by the mainstream media to define the terms of the Democratic Party's centrism has a problematic history, one that has arguably been central to its modern wins.
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The bad news is the second senator would be former senator Evan Bayh, whose reflexive and often sanctimonious Blue Dog-styled centrism frustrated grassroots Democrats for two undistinguished terms before he chose not to face voters in 2010.
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Instead of reflecting on the ways in which centrism has failed both in politics and in policy, Brooks sees moderation as an inherently good thing that has somehow fallen out of fashion and just needs to be reinvigorated.
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Where Carter came to power before Democrats were prepared to make the transition from Ted Kennedy liberalism to Clintonian centrism, Trump is the avatar of ascendant, unabashed white nationalism, overtaking a sclerotic party still dominated by movement conservatives.
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PHOENIX — Representative Martha McSally of Arizona worked hard to carve out a moderate profile since her election in 2014 to a border district seat that had been held for decades by paragons of centrism from both political parties.
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This means the book is at its best when Klein is puncturing the kind of simplistic centrism that imagines that the cure for division is just to educate people about the Right Answers™ to complicated policy disputes.
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In dozens of primary races across the country, Democrats are arguing not just over what their party should stand for, but over the related question of whether the new radicalism or the old centrism is better for winning elections.
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Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate quickly turned into a battle over the direction of the party, with moderates squaring off with the progressive Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — and the progressives swatting away the centrism at every turn.
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The extraordinary success of "Black Panther" rests in part on creating a counter-myth to centuries of racist depictions of Africa, where it sets a hidden kingdom wiser and more technologically advanced than the wildest visions of Afro-Centrism.
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The triumph of this kind of Republican leader and his ability to get away with what he does in the White House has poured cold water on the "reasonable" campaign experts who praise the promise of compromise and centrism.
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Recognizing the statement that his abrupt retirement would send about centrism and the political bind it would leave Democrats in this November, Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, another Trump-state Democrat, prompted other moderates to lobby Mr. Manchin.
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Some of Sanders's supporters had their roots in earlier leftist movements like Occupy Wall Street: people who have long been tired of what they see as the Democratic Party's centrism and want to see a more aggressive progressive vision.
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In 2007, when Barack Obama was the great progressive hope and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was preparing to graduate from high school, the leading voice of American centrism, and of catchy new slogans, coined a Catchy New Slogan: the Green New Deal.
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Thus, The Favourite's power structure is, unfortunately, unusual and significant (both cinematically and in the general context of historical accounts of the British monarchy), not least because director Lanthimos has enabled the film's woman-centrism to move through its every second.
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Macron's centrism and pro-European leanings will now inevitably frame the run-off as an effective referendum on France's future relationship with the EU. As a founding EU member, this will likely be giving political leaders in Brussels reason to worry.
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The politics of managerial centrism is not the election-winning force it was a decade ago, and those who have intransigently opposed Corbyn from day one will have to revise their view about the "unelectability" of a left-wing populist programme.
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Still, it wasn't until the 1990s that the Freedom Party became a national force, when Jörg Haider modernized the party around a populist, anti-immigrant message that also appealed to Austrians who were tired of the stultifying centrism of coalition politics.
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Celebrated by its supporters as a synonym for peace, prosperity and a common-sense centrism, Clintonism was — and is still — derided by its detractors on the left as corporatism and on the right as a shorthand for scandal and impeachable offenses.
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Before Biden can face off with the Republican president, he must outlast a Democratic field that features 19 other candidates, no sure thing in a party that has moved away from Biden's centrism and toward a more liberal, progressive tilt.
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Tlaib's booing made news because it spoke to an ongoing generational power struggle in the Democratic Party — a clash between Clintonian, pantsuited centrism and insurgent leftist politics that can't be boiled down to questions about media representation and gender alone.
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But there is, again, the paradox of centrism: The plan might have been even more popular — and Obama's party might have been saved from its current divisive health-care debate — if the proposal had included a public option alongside private insurance.
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But just as Carter's mix of proto-New Democrat centrism and old-school liberalism never translated into a workable congressional agenda, Trump's bridge to a new conservatism will crumble if his party can't agree on policies that fit his vision.
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In some ways, voters are getting the message: As she traveled through the state last weekend, Iowans praised Harris for her bipartisanship and her centrism, two things that few people noted about her when she visited the state a year ago.
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In a rather original twist on the current struggle of rising dissatisfaction in many western democracies, France finds itself torn between the rise of populism in the form of Le Pen and the rise of centrism as represented by Macron.
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But it's also because the set of ideas he claims to represent, a sort of generalized "centrism" untethered to either party, does not exist outside of an echo chamber made up of a small number of America's wealthy, educated elite.
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For a certain kind of New Yorker, whose Manhattan-centrism comes with the expectation that the Big Apple should naturally be a magnet for the best of everything, the long absences of Nina Stemme, the great Swedish dramatic soprano, were somewhat puzzling.
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His radical centrism is dividing the party and helping Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden allies see boost in Tuesday's election results Sanders vows to end Trump's policies as he unveils immigration proposal Republicans warn election results are 'wake-up call' for Trump MORE.
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And that is the danger for a liberalism (or an anti-Trump centrism or conservatism) that's forever wringing its hands over how surely, surely Russian interference might have been enough to shift those crucial 78,000 votes and make Donald Trump the president.
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That kind of platform was probably never going to fly in the Sixth, and it never got a chance to—Ossoff was centrism incarnate, a nice young guy in a suit who talked about efficient government and promised not to raise taxes.
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And in pledging to root out wasteful spending and seek compromise, he sounded more like an heir to former Senator Sam Nunn's brand of Southern centrism than a progressive millennial who cut his teeth working for Representative Hank Johnson, a DeKalb County liberal.
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Yet every time I hear him speak, I get the sense that he's trying too hard to please everyone and that — in a way that recalls some of Obama's worst tendencies toward misguided centrism — he'll end up pleasing no one in the process.
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To the chagrin of her progressive supporters, she has played up this centrism during her campaign, dropping her party affiliation from her ads, telling press it's "hard" for her to say she's a "proud Democrat," and declining to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Garcia.
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The party's leftward march began in Barack Obama's second term, and Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 in part because she abjured her husband's popular legacy of centrism, enabling Donald Trump to appear to many swing voters as the more moderate candidate in the race.
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After decades of Democratic politics oriented predominantly around the calculated triangulations of the Clintons or the morally impassioned centrism of Obama, both approaches were not only crushed by populist reaction among Republican voters but seriously challenged by someone calling himself a socialist among Democrats.
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Ms. Merkel's bland slogan — "For a Germany where life is good and we enjoy it" — summed up a campaign that promised to continue the reassuring blend of moderation, stability, dignity and determined centrism that "Mutti" (mommy) has steadfastly pursued in an era of extremist politics.
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But Macron is politically inexperienced, and his centrism is a tightrope walk: Recently he was in hot water with the right for calling French rule in Algeria a "crime against humanity" and with the left for doing outreach to skeptics of same-sex marriage.
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Raised under austerity, angry at losing the huge state benefits their elders enjoyed, burdened with student debt and seeing few prospects for advancement, many millennials are turning to socialism, fracturing the Labour Party along generational lines between renewed radicalism and an older centrism in retreat.
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The opposing, poorly drawn men of the meme are applied to everything from character picks in Overwatch to astronomy; but true to the meme's origin's on 4chan—another radicalizing force Minassian mentions—the subject matter tends to veer towards subjects of traditionalism, ethno-centrism, and misogyny.
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But they all participate, to varying degrees, in a version of what might be called — drawing from debates about the devaluation of gay male femininity — "masc-centrism": a perspective in which same-sex desire is largely separated from any kind of gender nonconformity, while centralizing conventional masculinity.
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I got sick of losing in the policy arena, I got sick of losing elections, and I thought it was a time to get back to centrism as a way first, and then if we can win on some other things let's push for that too.
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It is reasonable to assume that placing a premium on bipartisan centrism will produce more of it, and that may be a good thing in a country where the two parties have substantially stopped reaching out to the middle instead preferring to maximize intensity among base voters.
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If a candidate can combine Sanders's economic populism with the ability to articulate that message in the South, then the future will belong Sanders, and Clinton's triumph will be seen as the last gasp of the centrism that dominated the party in the long aftermath of Reaganism.
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The power of frontier Americanism had been its ability to take social conflict, be it settler-style racism or the demand for more equitable wealth distribution, and resolve it through a vibrant, forward-moving political centrism that could credibly claim to be an expression of liberal universalism.
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On Monday, Jon Huntsman, a former Republican governor of Utah and proponent of the gentleman's centrism embodied by his nonprofit group, "No Labels," seemed to endorse Trump, the Master Labeler himself — the man who labeled "Lyin' Ted" Cruz, "Little Marco" Rubio and "Low Energy" Jeb Bush, among others.
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Who even knows what the political landscape will be by then, but as a candidate, Biden would combine the relative centrism of the Obama wing of the Democratic Party with the ability to engage in some fiery blue-collar rhetoric—which Clinton was never able to do convincingly.
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But in a primary that may revolve around Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, Biden's obvious centrism and voting record will be liabilities that his off-the-cuff style may make worse—it's easy to imagine the punchy, impulsive Biden doubling down when he should be recanting.
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But then consider a third distillation, a third narrative, in which the center-left's signal political failure was that it never really sought to preserve a cultural centrism, which meant over time that its party's approach to social issues has been dictated more and more completely by the left.
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Instead, Sinn Féin and its leader, Mary Lou McDonald, have promised to deliver change that the Irish electorate seems eager for, framing their left-wing policies as the antidote to the centrism and stagnation of Ireland's two major parties, which have dominated Irish politics since independence in the 1920s.
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Opinion Columnist For a long time the notion of a Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy seemed like a Manhattan fancy, a conceit with elite appeal but no mass constituency, a fantasy for Acela riders who imagine that the American people are clamoring for a rich person's idea of centrism.
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This press conference was billed as "a perspective on healing our nation's racial divide that differs from the National Action Network's Ministers March for Justice also happening Monday in Washington," one necessary "before the cultural waters become muddier and divisive rhetoric creates more violence": language that hinted at centrism.
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Centrism. Bredesen has long prided himself on his ability to build consensus and make deals across the aisle, and he says he feels compelled to bring that skillset to a bitterly divided and dysfunctional Washington — to restore "the mechanics of government" by pursuing compromise and rejecting partisan rhetoric.
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The entire world saw her live reaction to that victory, and her triumph — from her surprised face to the shoes she wore out through campaigning — became iconic, a symbolic reclamation of the possibilities of grassroots activism, and a slap in the face to the kind of establishment centrism represented by Crowley.
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This post appeared originally on THUMP UK.When social and political shitstorms are raging out there in the real world, you'll probably be looking for an escape valve; luckily for all of us, festival season's here to save everyone from interminable chats down the pub about centrism, careerism, and Marie Le Conte.
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Joining defiant rationalism to political centrism in an irrepressibly upbeat tone, Pinker insisted that the sky is the limit on possibility if humanity sticks to its tried-and-true devices of pacification: the gentle sociability of commerce, the feminization of boorish men, and the continuing expansion of sympathy for others.
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Democratic politicians have abandoned attempts at "tough but fair" immigration centrism (which weren't winning them support from immigration skeptics anyway) and have instead started speaking out against the immigration enforcement regime that's been built up in the US since the creation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under George W. Bush.
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Insofar as Trump's strongman tendencies, and his erratic, id-driven decision-making process have been sources of widespread sleeplessness, this is a welcome development, and I believe some of the enthusiasm for Trump's supposed "centrism" is really an expression of gratitude that his authoritarian inclinations are giving way to something more considered.
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Most important, this latest of many polls showing Sanders running well ahead of Clinton against Republicans suggests that the real majority in American is not the conservatism of Cruz, the ugly and divisive politics of Trump, or the crony capitalist centrism of groups such as the erstwhile Democratic Leadership Council or Third Way.
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But with a little critical re-framing, Monet's most celebrated works can testify to the perniciousness at the heart of the structural conditions underlying today's climate crisis — in particular, the dated binary between "enlightened" humans and an inert and exploitable "true" nature — the bankrupt human-centrism that gave rise to it all.
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This convinced many Republicans that pursuing centrism is a fool's errand, and the subsequent losses of candidates like McCain and Romney, who were both distrusted by conservative activists, have only strengthened the belief among Republican elites that they win when they nominate conservatives, and lose when they nominate moderates, spurious though the claim may be.
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While unrest percolated at home, Macron turned his attention to shoring up the European Union — "going full de Gaulle," according to Foreign Policy's Robert Zaretsky — bringing himself close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as bastions of centrism on the continent and using his position as a bully pulpit against the U.K.'s botched Brexit process.
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Adam KinzingerAdam Daniel KinzingerHouse Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE (R-Ill.) on the "State of the Union" panel said that he believes Biden would be a "tough" candidate because of his legacy of centrism.
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And it is hard not to conclude that there is a certain animating centrism at work in the British media, just as leftists observe in the U.S. media; that they would prefer small-c conservatism—which, in this case, happens to mean capital-t Tories—to the large-scale upheaval of a radical Corbyn government.
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"When you have a turnout problem, you don't solve it by running corporate-backed centrism, you solve it by running progressive candidates that give progressives something to believe in on that ballot," said Derrick Crowe, a Democratic Socialists of America member and candidate for the seat who's been endorsed by national progressive groups aligned with Vermont Sen.
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In "'Centrism Is Canceled': High Schoolers Debate the Impeachment Inquiry," Audra D.S. Burch writes about how one social studies teacher in Louisiana has decided to use events in Washington as a real-time lesson in civics and political science for his students: CHALMETTE, La. — It was impeachment day in Mr. Dier's world history class at Chalmette High School.
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I like to think that Hillary Clinton would have come out against the TPP trade deal either way, but whether on that or so many other points, Sanders clearly forced Clinton to explain to the American people how she would break from the triangulating centrism her last name and her own Wall Street-cozy record have come to represent.
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Refusing to take a buttload of money from Wall Street would have done both—it would have elevated the political centrism that Obama has come to symbolize and made the case that politicians are listening to the people, not continuing the same crony cliquishness that got us into this political/economic/social/cultural mess in the first place.
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His success in overcoming a lot of problems as a candidate is a case study in the virtues of old-fashioned centrism — he ran and won by putting himself forward as a more ideologically moderate politician than previous GOP presidential nominees, and a big potential weakness in office is that he is betraying aspects of that promise.
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Opinion by: Saagar Enjeti Last night America saw the empty promises of neoliberal centrism on full display in the embarrassing performance of Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Defense bill talks set to start amid wall fight Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE.
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There are some significant spoilers about the ending (could humans be the real monsters?), but for the most point we'll be discussing whether how Metro 2033 attempts to combine immersive sim and linear FPS traditions, the places where its execution lets down its artistic ambitions, the whiff of centrism around its politics, and what its singular morality system implies about its worldview.
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The eagerness of reputedly liberal publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post to showcase Never Trump voices, and the recent vogue of writers' extolling classical liberalism or Enlightenment values, is symptomatic of a wider tendency of elite institutions and thinkers to seek a new centrism bringing together the center-right and center-left against supposedly destabilizing forces in politics.
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Sanders, a progressive firebrand, said Biden's centrism and vows to return the country to the politics of the Obama administration would be insufficient to defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Trump says Biden Ukraine dealings will be a 'major' campaign issue MORE in November.
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" In perhaps the clearest example of how the term equates the hateful rhetoric of the alt-right with the left's frustration with the centrism of the Democrats, Wolcott writes, "Disillusionment with Obama's presidency, loathing of Hillary Clinton, disgust with 'identity politics,' and a craving for a climactic reckoning that will clear the stage for a bold tomorrow have created a kinship between the 'alt-right' and an alt-left.
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Buttigieg is positioning himself as a more youthful messenger for the kind of centrism espoused by former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGiuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' Three women accuse Gordon Sondland of sexual misconduct Top Obama-era official says Trump is 'destroying' executive privilege amid investigations MORE, but his overall chances are dogged by his weakness — so far — with African American voters.
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It takes a lot of hubris for a mealy-mouthed technocrat like Bloomberg sees the populist rise of Bernie SandersBernie Sanders2900 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 220006 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides The Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary MORE, Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenWarren goes local in race to build 2202 movement 2628 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 28500 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE, and Donald Trump and think that his brand of centrism is poised to catch on.
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So what I&aposve got here, you have got this progressive socialist party or part of the party rather, and on the one hand you&aposve got the Bernie Sanders wing and they are members of the Soviet revolution like it was yesterday and you&aposve got the Ocasio wing, and they don&apost know what the Soviet revolution was, so you&aposve got to - you get to sort of pick between what&aposs definitely out of the mainstream, I think for a lot of Americans, but on either side, they&aposre not going to have that centrism.
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For example, Ralph Northam ran a unique campaign built on centrism and gun safety that was entirely separate from the platforms which national Democratic leaders like Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE and Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE promote.
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Opinion Columnist Since at least the middle of the Obama era, all the energy and activity and creativity in the Democratic coalition has been with people pushing the party away from any kind of centrism — with the journals and zines that have resuscitated something they call socialism, with the activists trying to impose the college-campus style of cultural liberalism on the wider country (or at least the wider internet), with the feminists and intersectional types and Bernie Bros who clash and feud and sometimes absolutely hate one another, but still share a common "to the left, march" purpose.
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Hauser & Wirth has an installation by Mike Kelley, "shown for the first time in LA, exactly 20 years since its inception, in the city where it was conceived," as described in another Frieze piece heralding all the LA that would be on view in LA. But mostly this LA-centrism bleeds into the fair aesthetic, which flattens everything into commodity — Blum & Poe's Dave Muller Hollywood mural, painted across all the booth's walls, is kitschily self-referential, and Sprüth Mager's huge Barbara Kruger all but expected, while most of the LA artists don't immediately read as particularly LA. This inevitable art fair homogenization perhaps necessitated Frieze LA's strong rhetoric.
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And for more than a decade, Collins has been cast as a dutiful moderate, not because she is one, or because her constituents demanded that she vote like one (she hails from a state that twice elected Paul LePage—once dubbed "America's craziest governor" by Politico for comparing the IRS to the Gestapo and sabotaging state government), but because journalists needed to frame Collins as a "leading" or "pivotal" moderate to create tension in their stories and to avoid facing the reality that the Washington they once knew—a Washington defined by a pragmatic centrism—had completely disintegrated, if it ever existed at all.
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