As Centrist Dems Go After the Left, Beware the P-Words

As centrist Democrats sharpen their knives to counter surging democratic socialists, we should beware of what I’ve come to call the P-words, a series of concepts that, while sounding objective and reasonable, play to the Right. Seemingly liberal, they normalize pushback while implying a rational, “practical” center to which we all presumably want to revert. I first noticed these P-words while lobbying Congress for many years about human rights and US policy in Honduras. Now they’re all over the…