The best critique of centrism you'll ever read is a Twitter conversation, says John Aziz.
In the words of Jim Hightower:
The fact of the matter is Centrism is indefensible.
This is not to say that some—politicians, of course— have not made their career out of it, and highly successful ones too, at that, in their bid for office.
Of recent date, the ongoing French presidential election comes to mind:
There are those who have tried to defend it...
Tony Blair is right about one thing: It is indeed quite mistakenly that centrism is perceived "as a sort of splitting the difference between right and left."
It makes it seem innocuous in a misleading kind of a "fair and balanced" sort of a way. Which is the reason why political demagogues have found it so easy to sell as a bill of good.
Centrism is nothing of the sort, of course.
It is, in fact, much more violent and way more pernicious.
French writer and essayist, Éric Zemmour, commenting on the current French presidential election and the centrist campaign of presidential contender Emmanuel Macron, speaks of it as a "return to the Orleanism of the July Monarchy."
The video, a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio, is in French (subtitled in French).
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