Yeah my sense is that people who call themselves centrist are actually almost as authoritarian as the republicans, just with a different set of cultural norms-

Yeah my sense is that people who call themselves centrist are actually almost as authoritarian as the republicans, just with a different set of cultural norms- cosmopolitan or aspiring to be cosmopolitan rather than rural and patriarchal. I’m other words, the social liberal/economic conservative crowd. Truly a marriage of convenience: raising the minimum wage is going to make your nanny more expensive, but gay rights costs you nothing. And my property taxes are too high. When they see people marching in the streets many of these folks get scared and run to the republicans.