General Discussion

While the right rarely if ever feels the need for restraint.

Performative Centrism is just another word for cowardice; Centrists stand for nothing other than gridlock and politics-as-usual. They are comfortable with the status quo, even when fascists on the right have moved the Overton Window so far to the right that the Center is to the right of Reagan.

Note: moderates are not the same as centrists - moderates may be liberal or even progressive on some issues, but generally oppose radical, rapid, dramatic changes or actions. Centrists, on the other hand, attempt to occupy that triangulated vacuum where there are no values or positions, no efforts at change, therefore no one should be offended, especially rich donors and lobbyists.

PS. I don’t consider Clinton, Blair or Schroeder to be progressives.