It’d be nice to blame politicians or Trump or Elon, but there is a lot of evidence that this is just who we are. The people voting Trump, really do believe in h

It’d be nice to blame politicians or Trump or Elon, but there is a lot of evidence that this is just who we are. The people voting Trump, really do believe in him and his policies. Places around the nation are not being run by centrist policies, but the policies that people in those places want. Which are not what most would consider centrist. In fact, the political class already knows that, which is why you see them conform to those policies. It is true that neither Trump and Vance nor Harris and Walz were able to muster even 50% of the vote. But that’s because of the existence of more extremist options on the ballot, not because of the presence of less extremist options. Certainly not because of any supposed centrism. (Not that centrism would work in any case when the policies being moderated by the centrism are so ill conceived from the outset.) We’re in a bad spot, but it’s not because of politicians, it’s because of us.