https://policymaker.net/tags/centrism/ Recent content in centrism on Policymaker.net Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://policymaker.net/2026/04/12/after-the-franchises-the-technocratic-turn/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://policymaker.net/2026/04/12/after-the-franchises-the-technocratic-turn/ Two franchise models have now had sufficient time to be evaluated on their results. The right-populist franchise delivered sovereignty theater and institutional corrosion. The left-progressive franchise delivered solidarity theater and policy incoherence. Both failed on the same metric: material conditions for ordinary people did not improve under either model, and in several cases measurably worsened. The electorate is not ideologically sophisticated in the academic sense, but it is ruthlessly empirical in the practical sense.