Where are the real 2020 centrists?

theweek ^ | 12/03/2019 | Damon Linker

[ChicagoConservative27]

The most persistent narrative of the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination is that it amounts to a battle between leftists (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren) and centrists (Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and now Michael Bloomberg) over who is best suited to take on and take down President Trump.

But what if there are no true centrists in the 2020 race at all?

Oh sure, there are plenty of candidates who portray themselves as centrists — and other candidates, like Sanders and Warren, who delight in skewering these less left-leaning options for ideological heresy. But do the three Bs — Biden, Buttigieg, and Bloomberg — really speak for "the center" of the Democratic Party or the broader American electorate?

[ChicagoConservative27]

They are all socialist scum.

[CatOwner]

If there is anyone who speaks to the middle of the country, it would be Trump. Good luck convincing the media of that.

[lee martell]

I think I saw one in the far left field, riding a big blue flying horse.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Pete Buttplug is no moderate. He was in South Carolina yesterday. He sat down for a "conversation" with some "activists". They lectured him by telling him that illegal aliens are only reclaiming the land that was stolen from them. Pete Buttplug nodded his agreement with profound seriousness.
 

[decal]

Centrist Democrat = Moderate Mohammedan

[SES1066]

“The Week” and its columnists think the ‘CENTER’ is left of Obama. Off-shoot of Brit mag of same name, I tried them twice over the years for a complimentary 4-week try-out. No thanks, more of the same.

[wastedyears]

There aren’t any.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bingo, you’ve nailed it.

Trump IS the centrist. When you line-up all of our Presidents along a spectrum of their political beliefs the guy he most closely aligns with is JFK.

The Democrats on the other hand have gone hard-core Socialist. Their base will tear apart any “centrist” trying to get their nomination.

[MrEdd]

I am the far right individualist.
Donald Trump is a centrist Truman Democrat, although he was elected under the aegis of the Republican Party

[Verginius Rufus]

The only centrist who will be on the ballot in November 2020 is Donald Trump.

None of the Democrats running is a centrist.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Perhaps they should strive for “Patriotism” with the outside hope of attaining ‘Central-ism’

[SunkenCiv]

He's right here.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Grimmy]

Centrists?

That’s what the idiots are calling centrists now?

[AmericanCheeseFood]

To be a centrist, they’re the right now, as the left is further left and that’s the way they go. Chasing slogans, feel good dreams and hokey schemes!

[GOPJ]

He sat down for a "conversation" with some "activists". They lectured him by telling him that illegal aliens are only reclaiming the land that was stolen from them. Pete Buttplug nodded his agreement with profound seriousness.

Is this the same event where Buttigieg said he believed in FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS? PAID FOR BY AMERICAN TAXPAYERS?