Comment by dh2022
1 day ago
NPR was not rightward this past election, for sure. I don’t think NPR missed to report a single Kamala endorsement last fall.
1 day ago
NPR was not rightward this past election, for sure. I don’t think NPR missed to report a single Kamala endorsement last fall.
OP is arguing nuances, and you seem to be intent to distill everything to a binary construct. Nuances are what runs the world, not binary groups.
I thought they meant NPR was generally neoliberal left of center, and their coverage has perhaps moved toward the center post-Obama while still being left of it.
Where exactly is the American 'center' as of 2025? Where is the midway point between the modern establishment left and the establishment MAGA right?
Because to me, that midpoint looks to be way to the right of, say, Mitt Romney or George Bush Jr or Reagan.
I think the center in modern American politics has historically been neoliberalism, which explains why the center keeps holding. Neoliberalism is only now having to respond to populism on the left and right, which has caused the balance of power to shift on each side. The neoconservative bloc has attained power on the right with the rise of Trump and the Tea Party before him, and some folks on the left have acquired influence, like Bernie Sanders and AOC. The center is holding less and less as the bureaucracy is being fired and defunded.
I don’t mean to be dismissive, as I think your reading is also accurate. The center of mass is shifting, but I’m not sure the locus of control is as much.