For decades, back-room Democrat strategists have responded to far-right extremism by chanting "if we silence the left and move the party to the right, we can finally capture the middle". So with no real left wing option, the Overton window of US politics has lurched ever farther to the right.
January 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
For decades, back-room Democrat strategists have responded to far-right extremism by chanting "if we silence the left and move the party to the right, we can finally capture the middle". So with no real left wing option, the Overton window of US politics has lurched ever farther to the right.