the way to the middle is for conservatives to rename themselves pragmatists while retaining the pragmatic values of conservatism. If communists can continually rename themselves and co opt the term liberal which in the classical sense it’s what most today’s conservatives are, then we should use the same tool. Perception is reality in politics and we have allowed the left to rename us and define us. It’s time to take the bull by the horns and start redefining ourselves. After all who is against pragmatic approaches? Nothing that is advocated by the left can be dubbed pragmatic. Envious? Jealous? Emotional? anything but pragmatic.
I prefer American ,even though in todays venacular that makes me a Right wing Extremist,so I say Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice