Like... of the four authors of the report... Are any of them Republicans? This is exactly why the center can't hold: because even the people trying doggedly to position themselves as centrists are not seen as centrists by anybody else.
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Chait's vision here, and perhaps Niskanen's also, is an American political environment where the debate is between Socialism and Christian Democracy, much as in many European countries.
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And maybe we are headed that way, but I have a spoiler for you: Europe is leaving that debate behind itself with a new wave of rightist and leftist parties, and the actual movements making headway in the US don't fit that rubric either.
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