Days before the election, as polls show surging support for Medicare For All, top Democrats are now frantically trying to come up with ways to stop their party from pushing the initiative. What is going on here?

Here’s the thing: If a candidate is legit anti-oligarch and anti-corruption, then nobody should care whether they call themselves “moderate,” “centrist,” “progressive,” or “left.” Loathing oligarchy is the ultimate mainstream position in the actual center. Stop conceding “centrist” to corporatists who are on the real fringe of public opinion. Stop allowing newspeak to cast anti-oligarchy as an extreme agenda. It’s not. It’s mom-and-apple-pie normie at this point. It’s literally the normiest of normie agendas.