Gregory Maniatis, Director, Refugees & Migration, Open Society Foundations April 23, 2026 In a guest essay for Demos, Gregory Maniatis argues that the political “centre” is not an ideology but a practice of building coalitions across disagreement. Using immigration as a key example, he contends that progressives failed not due to bad policy but because they avoided honest debate, persuasion, and broad coalition-building, retreating instead into moral certainty and institutional conformity.