For all their appeals to enduring moral values, Moyn writes, the centrists are deploying a transparent strategy to return to power. centrists simply want to return to the status quo interrupted by Trump, their reputations laundered by their courageous opposition to his mercurial reign, and their policies restored to credibility.
Precisely.

                                                                                                          -Andrew Bacevich,
                                                                                                                          Tomgram


it's hard to think of after when you're in the throes. maybe the center will grow eccentric as the rebels rebel. maybe someday soon there will be no sleeping giant of the status quo but a multiplicity of rebels and an abundance of species.