Politics

What Macron Can Teach America: It’s Time for Center-Left and Center-Right to Unite

Vive Le Radical Centre!

Two years ago, En Marche didn’t exist. Now it’s a supermajority. It can happen here—and it’s just what our sclerotic system needs.

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In a time of Trump and deepening populist polarization in both parties, the idea of a radical centrist revolution seems as unlikely as it does quaint.

But in 15 months, Emmanuel

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