Ten years ago, during the 2008 election campaign, a number of prominent commentators, including Jon Meacham and Karl Rove, repeated the claim that America is a “center-right country.” That view was plausible when George W. Bush was still president, but since then the center right has lost ground even within the party that has been its traditional home. The past decade’s developments raise the question of what place the center right has in the nation’s politics and what its decline says about America. CONT.
Paul Starr (Princeton), New York Times