On Friday evening’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on tax-funded PBS, show host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg set a “foreboding” scene, just a few days before Election Day. He threw in all the anti-Trump buzzwords, including "convicted felon," a triumph of Democratic lawfare in New York City being predictably weaponized politically, though few could tell you now what "felonies" Trump was actually convicted of.

Host Jeffrey Goldberg: This is the closest race in memory, and one of the strangest and most foreboding as well….imagine this, a woman of black and Asian descent, who was a failed candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2020, and who was a semi-marginalized vice president in a fairly unpopular administration, may beat a former president of the United States in the race for the White House. This is completely improbable. But what is also completely improbable is that the former president she`s trying to beat is a convicted felon who encouraged a violent insurrection against the constitutional order and who has promised to be a dictator on his first day back in office.

But it was Politico’s Eugene Daniels who made the most ridiculous observation of the evening, arguing that the Democrats are centrist.

Eugene Daniels, Politico: And what it reminds us is that the Democratic Party continues to be a more centrist party, right? When you look at Obama, who despite what people thought kind of operated as a centrist, Biden, centrist, Kamala Harris, a centrist, the base of the Democratic Party continues to be black voters. They are still more centrist and more pragmatic as opposed to ideological. And so the takeover of the Democratic Party as a Republican Party has found out it hasn`t happened on the Democratic Party, to say it with the left.

The "centrist" label defies both common sense and the actual legislative voting records by those three Democrats, as tracked by the American Conservative Union (conveniently, all three formerly served as U.S. senators).

Former president Barack Obama, who represented Illinois for three-plus years, earned a lifetime score of 7.56 out of a possible 100 on the ACU's conservative scale. President Joe Biden, who represented Delaware for 36 years, earned a 12.57. Vice President Kamala Harris, who represented California for almost 4 years, earned a mere 4.45. Some “centrism”!

To portray the Democratic Party as “centrist,” Daniels had to forget a lot of recent history: the 2020 “defund the police” movement and the accompanying violent BLM protests, identity politics on college campuses and DEI corporations, radical transgenderism, COVID policies that denied adults work and children education, and the list goes on.