David Weigel shares some lessons from life in Washington’s ideological gray zone:
When you’ve spent as much time as I have ping-ponging from one end of the ideological spectrum to the other, you come to the conclusion that you have two options. One: You can make a Prisoner Number 6 escape from one of these worlds, burning everything as you flee, and hope to snag a contract for a tell-all book with a punny title when you’ve safely reached the other side. Two: You can try to get along with everybody.
I took the second route.