Mitch is now asked about running for president so often that his answers sound like ones that have been honed by repetition, shaved down sharp and smooth. As he told me:“Centrism has come to be known as a lukewarm version of not standing for anything so you’ll stand for everything. I call myself, like, a radical centrist. But, those things always require some level of compromise.”Yet as he spoke, it seemed to me that radical wasn’t the correct word for it. The sad thing is that in a time of national intransigence, gridlock and hyper-partisanship, effectiveness is radical.

Source: New York Times November 26, 2018 00:08 UTC