A great paragraph from Ezra Klein on the continued “center-right” idiocy:

The argument that America is a center-right nation tends to proceed from a simple survey of the landscape. We do not have universal health care, we do not have strong unions, we do not have guaranteed paid vacation, we do not have major climate change legislation, Other countries do, and therefore our people are center-right.
But this gets the causality backwards. Assuming that policy outcomes are a simple reflection of public opinion is a nasty error. We have a government set up to protect against public opinion. And it works. The Founding Fathers weren’t idiots, and the political structure they designed has functioned largely as they expected.

Full post here.