Hearing the Falconer #22 ~ 30-March-2019 ~ Do we win in 2020 with ideas? Or investigations?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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30-March-2019: Should the 2020 election focus on ideas, or investigations?
Buttigieg Says Trump Can Only Be Beaten With Ideas—Not Investigations
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Do we need ideas? Or investigations? Or both?

Interesting article about interesting Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. He's only 37 years old but already has almost eight years of political and administrative experience serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He also served a tour of duty in Afghanistan as a naval intelligence officer.

As a political moderate I just want to focus on the title of this article: "Trump can only be beaten with ideas - not investigations." Now Buttigieg might have a more nuanced position but this title seems to imply that we should ONLY focus on ideas and NOT on investigations.

Political moderates, by definition try to avoid extreme views. Certainly, trying to beat Trump with investigations and NO ideas would be too extreme in one direction but trying to beat Trump with ideas only and neglecting investigations where there is a legitimate rationale for investigations would be too extreme in the other direction.

Certainly I want the Democratic candidates to present their best ideas to the American people. But if there is evidence of wrongdoing in the White House let's not be afraid to investigate and let the chips fall where they may!

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The "Hearing the Falconer" Library

Books for Independent Thinkers

Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today

The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It

Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics

The Deliberate Moderate: Influencing From the Middle

Eisenhower: The White House Years

The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

Lincoln

Reflections of a Radical Moderate

Washington: A Life

The Reluctant Republican: My Fight for the Moderate Majority

Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Theodore Roosevelt: A Life

The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides

Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates

Elly Peterson: "Mother" of the Moderates