middle-of-the-roader

“I understand he wants to be as middle of the road as possible. I’m not that much of a middle-of-the-roader. I don’t know if he really understands what climate change is all about or what it’s doing.”

“The entire Republican Party went so far to the right,” said Sheri Schreckengost, 61, a legal assistant and political middle-of-the-roader, who in the past sometimes voted for Republicans.

A 1952 Harvard Law Review essay about Abe depicted a problem-solver happy to strike reasonable bargains and fade into the background: "…a middle-of-the-roader in search of solutions acceptable to all, a compromiser of great skill, an inventor of new formulas…." It was this practiced moderation, this faith in a future made by cosmopolitan men, that the McCarthyites feared.

Peter Jackson’s documentary, “Get Back,” also released at the end of 2021, changed the way many people thought about McCartney: always popular but wrongly blamed for the Beatles’ breakup, and often critically drubbed as a middle-of-the-roader given to sappiness or, worse, insincerity.

But Brazile said she does not consider Biden to be a "middle-of-the-roader" when it comes to the environment, given that the Obama administration championed the Paris Climate Agreement.