Nonideological Pragmatists, Revisited
Published at 10:56 on 12 May 2019
About a year ago, I made a post which claimed that many of the voters labeled “moderates” do not in fact have any strong ideological commitment to moderation or any other political principle. They are what I labeled nonideological pragmatists, willing to entertain ideas from across the political spectrum, provided they are presented in a convincing way.
Today, I ran across a Twitter thread by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez which anecdotally illustrates this point.