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Most folks are going to say "the country is moving in the wrong direction." That's just a natural outcome of having a centrist (center-right by EU standards) as President in a highly polarized political climate.
Progressives want more social services. Conservatives want to own the libs.
While I would vote for someone more progressive if I had the choice, honestly a centrist may be good to just cool things down. Though Biden hasn't been great at that either.
I think the biggest issue is simply that the struggling post-covid economy is blamed on Biden. Therefore people feel personally hurt by his policies.
Compare that to Trump who may have hurt a lot of people. But a majority felt unaffected personally. (I'm not an activist. I'm not trans. I'm not getting an abortion. I don't know the people coming across the border. I wasn't at the Capitol. Etc.)
I wasn't all that optimistic about a Biden presidency but he has actually accomplished a lot, in spite of a hostile Republican house, that the so-called media ignores. People in foreign countries understand this better than the average American who is quit ignorant about US politics. In fact, I hear more Putin/Republican talking points at the local sweat shop.
"Bernie would be a centrist in Europe!" Says the American,
"The fuck is this moron smoking?" says the AfD voter
We need more party's that are economically left but also have the right views that people want individually, like people seem to care about immigration yet the left pretends people don't. Though the right just pretends to care, which isn't very helpful either.
] While I would vote for someone more progressive if I had the choice, honestly a centrist may be good to just cool things down. Though Biden hasn't been great at that either.
I just wanted to say - how many times should this experiment be repeated before we figure out that no, centrist politicians to cool things down with the right doesn't work? You're just moving the Overton window further and further right, making it increasingly harder for leftist politicians to actually make progress.