CENTRISM Definition & Meaning

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adherence to moderate political views or policies; careful avoidance of any political position that could be construed as too far right or left:
Maybe more Americans are conservative than liberal, but I think there's also a tendency toward centrism.
The Eisenhower administration's aggressive centrism never challenged the fundamental assumptions of New Deal liberalism.

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In other words, this is the same old centrism.

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Kaye’s politics were varying and sometimes evolving — which he described as radical centrism.

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“Your maddening moderate centrism doesn’t make you bold,” wrote another.

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In 2017, I was working on a series of articles for Salon about "centrism," a once-dominant but rapidly fading force in American political life.

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