The US doesn’t seem to have any Centrist candidates. The closest one socially was Sanders, but he’s noticeably to the fiscal Left.

A Centrist candidate would indeed want to address income equality as an urgent priority, but moving away from laissez-faire capitalism inherently raises questions about tax avoidance. Outside of the thrall of techno-oligarchs, you would have to wonder why we’re arguing about tax rates when so many simply refuse to pay it at all.

The Centre should be as concerned as the Left with gun control, social cohesion and containing Big Pharma’s manufacture of the opioids epidemic. Such concerns aren’t rooted in the idea that property is theft, but that countries only function effectively when those with power play fair.

The US currently has a choice between the Right, the Extreme Right, and a few curveballs that, right now, seem to have little chance of winning.

As with elsewhere in the world, it’s not enough to show that the current crop is failing; the nation unites in the Centre when a charismatic candidate presents ideas that those on all sides can broadly agree upon. Yes, that is a difficult, precarious position, but it’s idyllic compared to where we are now.