Was E.J. right or wrong?

I was at storytime at the library with my daughter last week when I saw E.J. Dionne's book from earlier this year, Stand Up Fight Back on the shelf, so I checked it out. I'm a huge E.J. Dionne fan, and have been enjoying the book.

I hesitate to state someone else's hypothesis, so I'll just say that a key message I'm taking from the book so far is the innate strenght of moderates and moderation in our country. As I'm reading, I'm trying to decide whether this election really disproves that idea or not. I'm not convinced that it does.

Just yesterday, I sat in a session with Cokie Roberts where she pointed out that politics in America are much more polarized than people in America. So, as I continue to read the Dionne book, I'm going to continue to try to understand the extent to which perhaps moderates are the mainstream, but are masked both by politics, and by the public interpretations of the election and exit polls as they've been put forward so far.