[bombcar]

Part of it is that all political parties in the USA have given up "conversion/conversation" or trying to get this "hypothetical middle" to budge.

Instead, they're both entirely geared up to get "their base out to vote" which you do by riling them up in all possible ways.

[zeroonetwothree]

That’s clearly not true, just look at both T and H backpedaling on their policies to move them towards the center.