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Originally Posted by GGG
No it’s becuase the continued tactic of the right to elect people further and further to the right results in the middle shifting right. Having a voice that far left as president ensures the comprise move back toward the middle.
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I'm not totally sure that's how it works. I think that radicals on both the right and left distort rather than shift the political spectrum. It's an extreme example, but look at Weimar Germany. You could not imagine a more diverse spectrum of radical political options. They, of course, distorted the debate until the moderate liberal centrists were basically drowned as different ideologues argued, battled, and fought over whose utopian vision was best suited for the Volk, workers, whatever.
We all know what happened next.
The genius of America is that it typically segments and isolates radical voices so that they don't have a disproportionate impact across government and society.