The political center isn’t collapsing. It’s being bypassed.
Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, just sat down with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Not to scream, not to protest, but to talk housing, affordability, and safety, in a tone that made centrists sweat more than either of them.
This isn’t unity. It’s realignment.
When a leftist mayor-elect and a right-wing populist president can have a productive meeting on economic pain points, the center’s story, “we are the only sane option,” starts to crack.
Both sides are responding to material crises the center ignored: skyrocketing costs, eroding public services, and communities being priced out and policed in.
It’s not about ideology, it’s about delivery. And the center, long obsessed with vibes and electability myths, is being left behind by movements that actually promise to do things.
I broke this down in my latest video.
