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This sort of thing is familiar from the Obama years:
Centrists: Why won't support both entitlement reform and increased revenue?
Obama: I support entitlement reform and higher revenue
Centrists: Why won't politicians support entitlement reform plus higher revenue?
Centrists: Why won't support both entitlement reform and increased revenue?
Obama: I support entitlement reform and higher revenue
Centrists: Why won't politicians support entitlement reform plus higher revenue?
It's tempting to say that centrism involves always insisting that both sides are wrong, even when one side proposes exactly what you're demanding. But it goes further than that: bothsidesism leans right. Obama got no credit for being exactly the politician they claimed to want 2/
But Paul Ryan was praised endlessly for budget proposals that, aside from being dishonest, relied entirely on spending cuts while actually cutting taxes. Huge double standard favoring the right 3/
You might have thought that Trumpism would finally put an end to this. But nooooo 4/
