{"id":67045,"date":"2022-01-06T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=67045"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:25:46","slug":"qotd-the-centre-cannot-hold-because-theres-barely-any-centre-remaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/qotd-the-centre-cannot-hold-because-theres-barely-any-centre-remaining\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The centre cannot hold … because there’s barely any “centre” remaining"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>… check out Kevin Drum’s analysis of asymmetric polarization<\/a> these past few decades. He shows relentlessly that over the past few decades, it’s Democrats who have veered most decisively to the extremes on policy on cultural issues since the 1990s. Not Republicans. Democrats<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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On immigration, Republicans have moved around five points to the right; the Democrats 35 points<\/em> to the left. On abortion, Republicans who advocate a total ban have increased their numbers a couple of points since 1994; Democrats who favor legality in every instance has risen 20 points. On guns, the GOP has moved ten points right; Dems 20 points left.<\/p>\n

It is also no accident that, as Drum notes and as David Shor has shown: “white academic theories of racism \u2014 and probably the whole woke movement in general \u2014 have turned off many moderate Black and Hispanic voters.” This is why even a huge economic boom may not be enough to keep the Democrats in power next year. <\/p>\n

We are going through the greatest radicalization of the elites since the 1960s. This isn’t coming from the ground up. It’s being imposed ruthlessly from above, marshaled with a fusillade of constant MSM propaganda, and its victims are often the poor and the black and the brown. <\/p>\n

Andrew Sullivan, “What Happened To You?”, The Weekly Dish<\/em><\/a>, 2021-07-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… check out Kevin Drum’s analysis of asymmetric polarization these past few decades. He shows relentlessly that over the past few decades, it’s Democrats who have veered most decisively to the extremes on policy on cultural issues since the 1990s. Not Republicans. Democrats. On immigration, Republicans have moved around five points to the right; the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,28,53,41,13],"tags":[1420,1380,768,289,1020,99,517],"class_list":["post-67045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-classism","tag-criticaltheory","tag-democrat","tag-polls","tag-progressives","tag-racism","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hrn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71000,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67045\/revisions\/71000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}