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From: S. maltophilia	10/11/2025 4:18:04 PM
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.....This tendency is a hallmark of Democratic triangulation. When Republicans moderate, they rarely do it by tarring their conservative flank. They disagree without denigrating. On the other hand, centrist Democrats seeking to distance themselves from the left seem compelled to regurgitate Republican broadsides against the left as if driven by some primal instinct. They seem unable to envision a way of toning down their progressivism without fundamentally validating the Republican critique such a move is intended to address. This compulsion to validate the right also leads centrists to misjudge public opinion, or fail to anticipate obvious trends. Ezra Klein, for instance, caused a stir recently when he suggested that to be nationally competitive, Democrats needed to run pro-life candidates in Missouri, Ohio, and Kansas. Notably, Klein managed to select three states where recent pro-choice ballot initiatives passed easily. Who’s laser-focused on public opinion, again? Centrists also played into the right’s hands with Gaza protests, joining with conservatives to tar universities as radicalizing, anti-free speech cesspools of... prospect.org

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