It's been their M.O. for decades. Stake out an extreme position, then demand "compromise."
As soon as you meet them "in the middle," they've staked out another, more extreme claim -- demanding, of course, that you "meet them in the [new] middle."
This is the way the Overton Window gets slid to the left.
I've been watching this MO since the environmentalists' Wilderness Wars of the 1980s. There is now all kinds of productive timberland going to waste under Wilderness designation because of this tactic.
It's been their M.O. for decades. Stake out an extreme position, then demand "compromise."
As soon as you meet them "in the middle," they've staked out another, more extreme claim -- demanding, of course, that you "meet them in the [new] middle."
This is the way the Overton Window gets slid to the left.
I've been watching this MO since the environmentalists' Wilderness Wars of the 1980s. There is now all kinds of productive timberland going to waste under Wilderness designation because of this tactic.