What happened to Democratic centrists?

To most sane people, Clinton no longer qualifies as a centrist. Five years ago, her muscular talk on foreign policy made her allies with Robert Gates and John McCain. But her role as front lady for the Obama appease-niks turned her muscles into fat and her policy into mush.

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Yet Clinton is insufficiently committed to the movement, according to the Warren cult. And so true believers are pushing St. Elizabeth, she of the Cherokee cheekbones, to run against St. Hillary for the party mantle in 2016.

Then there’s Sen. Chuck Schumer, who could say seven years ago that he was a defense hawk. That was before he supported Obama’s abdication of global leadership and backed dovish Chuck Hagel for ­defense secretary.

Now he’s an ex-hawk, pushing to restrain Israel and rolling over for Obama’s plan to contain Iranian nukes instead of preventing them.

The lurch left is clear at home, too.

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