... I want to talk about "the center" one more time.

For the most part, and most viscerally, I react like Admiral Ackbar: "it's a trap."

Centrism of the sort that says the Dems need to hew rightward is bad politics and bad government. It won't rally the majority of Americans who want a change, and it won't save our American pie — nor the pies of a zillion other countries where we've dipped our digits.

But there is another perspective on centrism: that there's a party that's "centered" and one that is beyond the fringe.

I'm not watching, but the word is that the Bobbleheads this morning are busy spinning away, and that Joe is joining them, constructing the meme that the election was a "victory for moderates" and a "centrist mandate" is the will of the electorate. Let's slap that bullshit down hard, right now.

Let's start with the actual makeup of the Democratic caucus. Boo's got the choice goodies, be sure to read the whole thing for a complete list to save and smack centrist memers with:

I am actually astonished at just how deeply the progressive caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus stand to DOMINATE this new Congress. It's staggering. There are black women all over the place wielding previously unthought of influence over policy and pursestrings.

It's enough to make a Republican apoplectic.

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