He still pushes the nonsense about the problem being extremism on both sides, and we need to meet in the middle. I am really tired of hearing that.
He is right, though. We still have to live with "coastal elites". Separating based on politics is no possible with no geographic nexii. So we really do have to live with each other, and that is the important short term goal. Agreeing with each other is, if a realistic goal at all, an extremely long term goal. It's overwhelmingly more likely that we will need to coexist even while having fundamental disagreement. Otherwise, you get cancel culture in the private sector, which is bad enough, and now we are starting to see political warfare, with an idea of punishing the undesired factions, which we saw in a very mild form with the Trump presidency, and now the blowback (in the forms of Bidens executive orders, etc.), and both are really frightening. As it escalates, and the nominal left get more extreme, it causes corresponding extremism to the right which sounds good if you agree with those policies, but...fundamental differences remember...it causes blowback and retaliation if not now, next time, or later, or eventually.
I'm in agreement that compromise usually means "Democrats win", but that's more related to the fact that the Republican party is ineffective or subverted, than it is a blow against compromise itself.
We do not want a world where you have to choose to join the Neo Nazi Party out of self preservation just to avoid starving or being unpersoned because you used the wrong pronouns. We are currently in a phase of escalation, and the Democrats are winning by a mile, and they think if they can just gain a hegemony (they already proved they own elections and get away with it), maybe pack some courts, buy/coerce a few more Republicans, then they will simply rule and they won't have to compromise at all. The problem is, they always overestimate their ability to do it because, remember, fundamental differences exist. It is equally impossible for any side to "win". The only way to really finish the job is to disenfranchise, or purge those who are different, and if it comes to it, since people rarely tolerate it in the long term, maybe by simply killing them all, and this is a very very old story so it should not be hard to see the end game.