During the break I wrote a column for the FT on centrism.
US centrists, if any still exist, need some policies and a willingness to defend them, not rules of etiquette. The middle is not an ideology-free zone, where you see "what's best for America" the moment you take off your partisan goggles. Nothing is resolved by asking: "Why can't we all just get along?" Centrism needs an ideology, too - the more strident, the better. Without one, it is empty. It is No Labels.
Clive Crook is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a columnist for Bloomberg View. He was the Washington columnist for the Financial Times, and before that worked at The Economist for more than 20 years, including 11 years as deputy editor. Crook writes about the intersection of politics and economics. More
Crook writes about the intersection of politics and economics.
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