Moderates are Not Our Salvation

About this episode

The episode critiques the concept of moderates in politics, highlighting the discrepancies between their claims and actions.

The word “moderate” is a fashionable term these days as the remedy to the nation’s sharply divided politics, but it’s highly overrated and largely inaccurate. A stark example is Democrat Abibail Spanberger who was elected governor of Virginia in 2025 as a self-declared moderate, promising not to redistrict the state if elected, having branded gerrymandering as “detrimental to our democracy” as a Congresswoman in 2019. In her first year in office, she signed a bill that would gerrymander Virginia giving Democrats a 10-1 advantage in the U.S. House, from 6-5. (Her voting record in Congress was anything but moderate with a 100% rating form the ACLU and 3% from the American Conservative Union.) President John F. Kennedy was a moderate Democrat in 1961 when southern Democrats were conservative. Even Bill Clinton was a moderate Democrat president compared to the party’s liberals in Congress during his presidency. The few truly moderate Democrats that still survive in Congress these days are overwhelmed and cancelled by the legion of radical left-wingers that have taken over the party. One measure of that is the size and influence of the Democrats’ Progressive Caucus in the House that…

Topics covered

• moderate politics
• gerrymandering
• Democratic Party
• Republican Party
• political division
• progressive caucus

Keywords

• moderate
• gerrymandering
• politics
• Democrats
• Republicans
• progressive caucus
• Abigail Spanberger

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ACLU, American Conservative Union, Democratic Party, Republican Freedom Caucus

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