Jonathan Chait, then a columnist at New York Magazine, speaks onstage at the American Magazine Media Conference on Feb. 2, 2016, in New York City. Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Time Inc

Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.”

It was almost exactly a year ago that Jonathan Chait claimed that Kamala Harris’s moderate turn was a winning strategy .

“The centrism is working,” Chait wrote at New York Magazine. Her success in the polls compared to President Joe Biden, he added, should be “attributed to the cleverness and unsentimental courtship of the center her campaign has followed.”

Fast forward a year.

Chait now says that it was progressives who controlled Harris’s campaign — and lost the election. Th

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