1. We talk a lot about how the GOP has been cowed by the Trumpists. But an almost equally important dynamic is that many centrist and right-wing institutions have also been cowed by the Trumpists.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1352985397173903362 …
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I don’t see the false equivalences/both sides nonsense as a centrist issue. From the press, particularly pundits, I see it as a lazy habit across the board, including from the far left and far right. In other words, I think all sides are playing the both sides game.

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So what is a centrist institution exactly? When it comes to politics, being a centrist and being neutral are not the same thing.
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You were driftglass all along. Or maybe you were Fafnir all along, says me. Or maybe the real driftblog or fafglass was the friends we made along the way.
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This is true, all the violent riots last year where organized by right wingers, it´s not an even thing, there´s no comparison.pic.twitter.com/E5W1KKTC0T
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Asymmetrical polarization is exactly the right term, and I thank you for it.
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Comes from Mann and Ornstein. Which is maddening because they wrote about it in 2012 (!) in a book & op-ed and were promptly ostracized for it by the mainstream press..
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