I bought into the “center” for a lot of my formative years. It’s bullshit, and I’ve never seen it articulated better than by Mixon here.
It’s almost—almost—as if there’s a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm to harness from millions of people who would rather not be menaced and abused and killed by their government, and would even like to be helped by it, who haven’t been very well represented at all for decades. It’s almost as if the Democratic habit of trying to pick up voters to their right flank is a totally doomed strategy in an age when conservative voters have selected a completely alternate reality to live in, and will never acknowledge the ways that the opposition party is also giving them a lot of the cruelty and violence they so desperately want.
Such a center is a center that will make itself comfortable with any atrocity, because comfort is its only goal.
