{"id":400795,"date":"2021-11-22T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/middle-of-the-road-conniff\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T21:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:00:56","slug":"middle-america-no-more-middle-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/22\/middle-america-no-more-middle-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle America: No More Middle-of-the-Road"},"content":{"rendered":"Republican victories in statewide elections on November 2, especially Glenn Youngkin\u2019s win over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor\u2019s race, prompted a flurry of punditry blaming progressives for Democrats\u2019 losses and doubling down on the idea that President Joe Biden, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21096128-210292-nbc-news-october-poll-10-31-21-release\">approval rating<\/a> sank to 45 percent in late October, has strayed by taking progressive policy positions. Centrism, we\u2019re told, is the only way forward for the Democratic Party. &#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/middle-of-the-road-conniff\/\">The Progressive \u2014 A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican victories in statewide elections on November 2, especially Glenn Youngkin\u2019s win over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor\u2019s race, prompted a flurry of punditry blaming progressives for Democrats\u2019 losses and doubling down on the idea that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402123,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400795\/revisions\/402123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}