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The Center That Wouldn’t Hold

Review of Dead Center, in which Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) tries to make the case for his kind of centrism – a case that falls short. The post The Center That Wouldn’t Hold appeared first on Conservative News and Views.

The center that wouldn’t hold | The Highland County Press

Manchin closes by telling readers “the center still holds – if we’re willing to stand in it.” The sentence is well‑meant, but it undercuts his own narrative. If the center held, he would be riding out his octogenarian years in the Senate like the late Dianne Feinstein and an organizer-activist like Charlie Kirk likely wouldn’t have been felled by a politically-motivated assassin’s bullet.