Liberal bias?

There’s a different problem in this campaign. 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Some of the criticism has come from economists, and some from very affluent people. Often, the only people answering the criticism in the coverage have been Warren or her campaign advisers. The framing — as in the “top economists” phrasing from the debate question — has suggested that experts think poorly of Warren’s ideas, especially her wealth tax. But that’s not true. Gene Sperling, who served as the top economic adviser to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, has specifically praised a wealth tax — as has Heather Boushey, who runs the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. And so too have Felicia Wong and Michael Linden, who run two other progressive policy organizations. And academic research by Lily Batchelder and David Kamin of New York University has suggested that a wealth tax could work well. Objective coverage of a wealth tax (and, by extension, both Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’s agendas) would include both the criticism and the praise. The lack of balance is an example of what [John F. Harris](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRf4z6gP4QAAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnBvbGl0aWNvLmNvbS9tYWdhemluZS9zdG9yeS8yMDE5LzExLzA3L21lZGlhLWJpYXNlZC1hZ2FpbnN0LWVsaXphYmV0aC13YXJyZW4tMjI5OTA3P3RlPTEmbmw9ZGF2aWQtbGVvbmhhcmR0JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMTkxMjIzP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE0NzYzJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTk4MzImdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAxOTEyMjNXA255dEIKAC2guQBermATQlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) of Politico has called “centrist bias.” As he has written, “This bias is marked by an instinctual suspicion of anything suggesting ideological zealotry, an admiration for difference-splitting, a conviction that politics should be a tidier and more rational process than it usually is.” Centrist bias is [the subject of my column today](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRf4z6gP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8xMi8yMi9vcGluaW9uL3dhcnJlbi1zYW5kZXJzLXdlYWx0aC10YXguaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPWRhdmlkLWxlb25oYXJkdCZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDE5MTIyMz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xNDc2MyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE5ODMyJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MjIwMTkxMjIzVwNueXRCCgAtoLkAXq5gE0JSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). As newsletters readers know by now, I have [my own criticisms](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRf4z6gP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wOS8wOC9vcGluaW9uL2RlbW9jcmF0cy0yMDIwLXRydW1wLmh0bWw_dGU9MSZubD1kYXZpZC1sZW9uaGFyZHQmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAxOTEyMjM_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTQ3NjMmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xOTgzMiZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDE5MTIyM1cDbnl0QgoALaC5AF6uYBNCUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) of the Sanders and Warren campaigns, especially Medicare for All. And I believe centrist bias is mostly an honest mistake by well-meaning journalists. But I do think both campaigns — and politics generally — deserve more balanced coverage than they’ve gotten. Centrism isn’t the same thing as objectivity. Centrism is its own ideology. 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The problem of democracy, Schlesinger wrote then, was that it failed to inspire much passion and was, therefore, vulnerable to competition from the millennial promises of the totalitarian right and left, and even more to widespread disaffection and apathy. For the “vital center” of democracy to thrive, he wrote, it had to be more than a cautious, pragmatic creed. It had to be a “fighting faith,” an arena of struggle “breeding contradiction, breeding strife,” capable of answering questions vital to the human condition. 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