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Washington Post: 'The Left' Moves Front and Center (6/22/07) by E. J. Dionne Jr.
In what could be read as a direct rebuttal of his "centrism"-obsessed Post colleague David Broder, Dionne addresses such aged "clichés" as "Are Democrats moving too far to the left?" and "Will Democrats abandon the center?":This approach is about abstractions, not concrete political problems, and it misses the dynamic in American public life, which is the move away from the right and a discrediting of the conservative era. The political "center" of today is not where the "center" was even five years ago.... The "good ideas" that voters are demanding mostly have to do with problems that have been framed by the left, not the right: the need to disengage from Iraq, to create health security, to ease economic inequalities. It's time to update our sense of where the political center lies and to adjust our view of "the left" accordingly.
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