Progressive populism is centrism

Commenting on the news that independent Republican Joe Lieberman is quitting a Senate insiders' clique only to start a new one, Markos writes this morning:

So this is how Lieberman remains relevant? He quits a "centrist" group designed to fashion "bipartisan solutions" (where were these Republicans when they had the majority, one wonders), in order to create a new group whose sole state mission is to have more DC cocktail parties?

Only in DC would people think the problem is too few cocktail parties...

Look, the problem here is a distinct lack of understanding of what the word "centrism" means. If it means, "Where the majority of the American people live", then there is already a "centrist" organization.

It's called the "Democratic Party".

Progressive populism, progressive values, and the progressive movement are in fact mainstream political thought, whether the establishment or the right wing like it or not. The future of American democracy is people powered politics.