I'm not really sure what "moderation" means these days. I'd call myself a "centrist", but that's just a sort of averaging process applied to an identity as an anti-war, market-skeptical, social conservative.

I'm not especially moderate on any single issue. https://twitter.com/KatelynBeaty/status/1301534606060122112

@KatelynBeaty also seems to be claiming at the bottom of this thread that we have a deficit of voices who are willing to be unapologetically outspoken on Twitter, which is... not consistent with my experience here so far, shall we say!

I don't really think any of this is sincere. It's not like Beaty actually prefers the rowdy anti-intellectual evangelical MAGA-verse over these centrists, or would commend them if they joined it.

No one ever gets praised for reducing levels of *self*-tone-policing.

And isn't "criticizing people for sounding performatively centrist" a category of tone-policing in itself, if I understand that word correctly?