A passionate moderate politics isn’t just about promoting moderate policy outcomes. It is more fundamentally about moving beyond the current polarized political environment so we can make productive changes for the benefit of our nation, whether those changes are liberal, conservative, or centrist. When the system itself is broken (or at least severely ailing), individual…
By Example
DOMA
Two key principles in passionate moderate politics are (1) a commitment to proper procedure and (2) a commitment to upholding and improving our best institutions. Some recent developments over the defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) caught my attention as examples of moderate and immoderate politics regarding these two principles. In particular, this…
Rep. Amash: Tea Party Moderate
Lest the opening post on Romney give you the wrong impression, let me highlight a Tea Party conservative exercising some principles of moderate politics: Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI). The New York Times had a profile of him last week that caught my attention. The youngest member of the freshman class (he’s all of 30) is…