I don't see why it's unlikely.
To repeat myself repeating myself:
The left has radicalized to such an extent that it's ceded the center to the Republicans.
The hysterical, fiction-based TDS of the left has been more durable than I might have thought. Most people I know are academicians or in the penumbra of intellectuals/pseudo-intellectuals that have academia as their center of gravity. They hate / are horrified by Trump, and will never change their minds. Arguing with them is a waste of your breath. It is just about exactly like arguing with a Christian about Jesus. If you think you're going to move someone out of the wagon-ruts worn into the terrain of their thought over decades of life...well, uh, you're wrong. To think that Trump is anything less than Hitlerian, they would have to renounce all their previous, impassioned, public declarations, admit they've been wrong about fundamental things their entire lives, accept ostracism from their tribe...and resign themselves to being seen as, basically, an evil person by their entire social group. It's a lot easier to just turn a blind eye to the evidence and remain in the comfortable embrace of warm, blue fantasies...
Anyway: yes, Trump's basically a centrist. As others have noted, he's damn close to being a mid-'90s Democrat. He was a mid-90's Democrat. But 2008 Obama is too conservative for 2020s Democrats...
Well, nothing new here.
Just saying that it's not as surprising as this op-ed makes it out to be.
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