The Silent Majority
There’s a thing that’s out there and it’s big, and latent, and somehow always taken into account and always ignored, and political professionals always assume they understand it.
It has been called many things the past 50 years, “the silent center,” “the silent majority,” “the coalition,” “the base.”
The idea of it has evolved as its composition has evolved, but the fact that it’s big, and relatively silent, and somehow always latent, maintains.
