For a very long time in American politics, there was a truism about running for president of the United States: You were supposed to run to the extremes during the primaries, and then you were supposed to run toward the center in the general.
That made perfect sense. The idea was to consolidate a base in the primaries to overcome your primary rivals, and then run toward the center because that’s where the independents were.
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