It is crucial that we rehabilitate centrism. The way to do it is to see it as a metapolitical thesis. This means no longer construing it as a rival of the various political positions on offer. On this view, centrism is not the middle point between the two ideological extremes. Rather, it becomes a higher-order theory that crucially relies on the presence of the most vibrant political traditions to deliver it options. What sets it apart are its epistemological assumptions — which are the soundest among all positions — and its radical openness to siding with any of the traditions on any given issue.
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