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centrism

/sen-triz-uhm/US // ˈsɛn trɪz əm //

中立主义,中心主义,中立派,中间派

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : adherence to moderate political views or policies; careful avoidance of any political position that could be construed as too far right or left: Maybe more Americans are conservative than liberal, but I think there's also a tendency toward centrism.The Eisenhower administration's aggressive centrism never challenged the fundamental assumptions of New Deal liberalism.

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  • It didn’t help that Jacobs refused to play the centrist to Gómez’s leftist.

  • MSNBC is nominally to the left of centrist CNN, but only a bit, particularly compared to Fox News’s rightward tilt.

  • You can quibble with Ocasio-Cortez’s faith in the insurmountable impact of Facebook advertising — but the widespread declarations that she has broken her truce with centrists miss the point precisely.

  • Chief Justice John Roberts, the court’s most centrist member, wrote the 2012 opinion allowing the individual mandate, and conservative Justice Samuel Alito has written in favor of setting a high bar for arguments against severability.

  • A conservative-leaning court with at least one centrist justice who might be persuaded to join the liberals is where the situation stood until Ginsburg’s death.

  • The plain fact of the matter is centrism works nowhere in America.

  • Then came accusations of centrism—now a dirty word in a party with an energized left flank.

  • The “Euro-centrism” reflected in our views of World War II carried over into the Cold War.

  • With a Hillary Clinton candidacy more likely than not, centrism and triagulation will be the order of the day.

  • Although few would have predicted it in 1992, Hillary has become the preeminent symbol of Democratic centrism.

  • Was there any knowledge accompanying this colossal conceit—this ego-centrism of his?

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