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and choose someone who has plenty of real life experience

Hitler had 'plenty of life experience'. Experience for experience sake is not enough.

There are many issues where there can be compromise. For example there has to be SOME sort of tax to keep a government running. Also there must be a balance between zero immigration and open boarders. The problem is when one side defines what 'compromise' is and defines the realm of compromise. It is not 'compromise and discussion for there to be 'fewer' abortions. That is the Liberals winning. There is no promise if the boarders are 'sort of' guarded and only a minor flood of illegals come in. That is the Democrats getting what they want. It is not compromise to give illegal aliens amnesty but charge them a small fine.

It is not compromise to have 'only registration' of guns just for 'crime solving'. That is not a compromise between full bans and zero restrictions. Instead it is a stated goal and objective of the banners as a stepping stone. How many stepping stones are we suppose to give them as 'compromise'? 1? 2? 90% of what they want?

I think you have answered your own observation. It depends who defines “compromise”. Moderation is not neccesarily compromise - there are some things you cannot compromise on, there are others when you can (at least temporarily).

Interesting you should bring old Adolf into the discussion. In 1928 the Nazis were a minor party of what was called the extreme right. In the elections of that year they got a derisory 3% of the vote. He got into power because after the wall street crash and the onset of the great depression, German political opinion polarised very rapidly. The “moderates”, who supported democracy, got squeezed out by the Nazis and the Communist extremists, who between them got nigh on 60% of the vote in the elections of 1932.

So who’s to blame then?

Interesting you should bring old Adolf into the discussion. In 1928 the Nazis were a minor party of what was called the extreme right. In the elections of that year they got a derisory 3% of the vote. He got into power because after the wall street crash and the onset of the great depression, German political opinion polarised very rapidly. The “moderates”, who supported democracy, got squeezed out by the Nazis and the Communist extremists, who between them got nigh on 60% of the vote in the elections of 1932.

So who’s to blame then?