triangulator

Ever the triangulator, Clinton even launched attack ads against progressive challengers, warning that unions were “disastrous for the economy of Arkansas”—all part of an effort to encourage corporations to relocate to the state and grow low-wage jobs there.

Now it’s Xi who is the triangulator.

Clinton was certainly a Third Way triangulator, but his health-care proposal was far more sweeping than Obamacare — and he was, by the way, a vocal Roosevelt fan.

Both Farrell and Gabler — as is too common today — badly misread Clinton as a cynical “centrist” triangulator.

Here is the best theory I can come up with: Biden won in 2020 as the moderate nominee of a partially-radicalized party, which created an inherent uncertainty about what his victory would mean for policymaking — whether he would use his centrist cred to push an Elizabeth Warren-style agenda, or govern primarily as a bipartisan triangulator, a moderate in full.