At some point the left moved to the center, the right moved into a mental hospital. And there is no middle anymore. The right keeps — the Republicans keep staking out turf further and further to the right and demand that the Democrats meet them in the middle. But it’s not the middle anymore.
That’s why health care is so watered down, because it’s really Bob Dole’s old Republican plan from 1994, but somehow that got to be the middle now.