Commentators have suggested that Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister who was acquitted last week of two major corruption charges, could eventually make a comeback and challenge Mr. Netanyahu if he were to unite all the centrist parties and forces.
His economic advisers are nearly all centrists.
Why the gloom lingers They're (nearly) all centrists now The triumph of populism Better, but not best A retiring nation Arrivederci, Roma Cosa Nostra, continued The missing ingredients Reprints Related items An Italian storyApr 26th 2001Nor, these days, do good things happen only in the go-ahead north.
Why the gloom lingers They're (nearly) all centrists now The triumph of populism Better, but not best A retiring nation Arrivederci, Roma Cosa Nostra, continued The missing ingredients ReprintsOn the other hand, many on the left tend ritually to refer to Mr Fini and his Alliance as "the fascists", no "post" there either.
Why the gloom lingers They're (nearly) all centrists now The triumph of populism Better, but not best A retiring nation Arrivederci, Roma Cosa Nostra, continued The missing ingredients ReprintsOne snag is that the mix of Italy's businesses may be imperfectly suited to the new global economy.
Why the gloom lingers They're (nearly) all centrists now The triumph of populism Better, but not best A retiring nation Arrivederci, Roma Cosa Nostra, continued The missing ingredients Reprints Related items An Italian storyApr 26th 2001Il Cavaliere is brilliant at spotting opportunities.
Why the gloom lingers They're (nearly) all centrists now The triumph of populism Better, but not best A retiring nation Arrivederci, Roma Cosa Nostra, continued The missing ingredients Reprints Related items Italy and the law: A big acquittalSep 30th 1999Politicians such as Mr Orlando, Palermo's former mayor, have won elections on an anti-Mafia ticket.
Do you really in your wildest nightmares actually see [Sanders/Trump] getting elected president?!? Ain't gonna happen!" I can see a scenario where all the centrists (including a large number of independents) got so disgusted by the choices offered that they all stayed home and refused to vote.
Of course, there's always the possibility that Mr. Obama really is a centrist, after all.
They can give up on molding their candidate back into someone resembling a centrist, consolidate all those tens of millions of dollars in super PAC money (without any coordination of course) and use it to destroy Mr. Obama – through ads that distort his policies, question his patriotism, and accuse him of being a Muslim and a Marxist.
