political centre of gravity in the national government (and many many states as well) has slid and is sliding so far to the radical right, it is only going going to be a 1 step-forward-two-stops-back proposition. AND, as I just stated before, much of that incrementalism is going to be even further right when it comes through the prism-of bi-partisanship with a psychotic, almost never bending an inch opposition party.

Buttigieg in that article, to be very specific, was talking about centrist incrementalism as well, which by its very nature (as the 'centre' of the federal government has now catastrophically slid to the right) will again, by its very nature, result in treading water at best, or, as is far more likely, simply slow down, yet maintain the rightward drift.

All you have to do to see his cogent thought on this is to look at his take on healthcare, where he says it is NOT possible to move directly to a Medicare For All paradigm, and that we should simply offer the option to buy-in and let the market place decide.