There is no middle, that's where you are so very wrong. Appealing to "the sensible middle" is why Biden is failing.

Trump got more votes than any candidate in US history. Except for Biden.

Now consider who voted for Trump.

2 out 3 White Americans voted for Trump

1 out of 10 Black Americans voted for Trump

1 out of 4 Hispanic Americans voted for Trump

1 in 50 Asian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous Americans voted for Trump

7 out of every 8 people who voted for Trump was White.

Those White Americans, that’s 42% of the population, 139 million people. That’s the Trumpublican party, the “Trump Nation”. 100% White and not afraid to vote their “ideas and convictions”.

The sensible middle you think exists, that would be the 6.5 million White voters who voted for Trump in 2016 but then decided he was “too extreme” and voted for Biden in 2020. That 2% of the electorate is the “sensible middle” you are talking about. That’s it, that’s all of you.

Trump and the Trumpublican Party represent White America.

If you turn a blind eye to that, if you skip over that part of the story because you don't like the implications of it, then you aren't being "fair and balanced" you are enabling the Trumpublicans.

They want to make America an Apartheid nation. A nation where only White votes matter and White Republican men hold the majority of high offices. That's what "Make America Great Again" means.

Your appeal to "ideas and convictions" sounds like crypto-Republicanism to me. It's an appeal to "talk about Republican ideas" without talking about Republican racism, Republican misogyny, and Republican fascism. Because talking about those things is what?

Uncomfortable for White people? Uncomfortable for you? Too real for you? Makes your Trumpublican relatives think you're a "hater"?

There is no middle anymore. It's time to take a side. Who do you stand with?

I know you are going to say "I'm with the sensible middle who think both sides are equal and both sides have good and bad points." Really?

You really think the Democratic multiracial coalition is the same as the White Nationalist party that thinks it's good idea to sterilize Latina women in ICE detention centers before deporting them. So that they "don't keep coming back until they drop an anchor baby".

If you think the two sides are "equal" then you are not neutral. You are a White Republican who doesn't want to admit it out loud.