The Definition Of A Centrist

There’s a reason you use the middle finger.

Old Hoss Radbourn gives the finger

centrist

noun | cen·trist | sen-trist

The Definition Of A Neoliberal

Definition of CENTRIST

1. a believer in the strategy that the most effective way to drive from Point A to Point B is never to get in the car
2. a person who, after witnessing someone being bludgeoned with a length of pipe for accidentally stepping on someone’s foot, will insist that both the bludgeoner and bludgeonee are equally wrong and to blame for the incident
3. one whose most cherished political stance is not offending anyone at parties
4. a person in a boat who is blithely unaware of the tides pulling him or her out to die at sea

• centrist adjective
• centrism | sen-tri-zəm | noun

Echoes of Nixonland

Dane A. Wisher is based in Brooklyn.