The Overton Window is known to many but still most can’t see how it shapes acceptable politics. What’s left and right in the US is shifted so far right from most other democratic countries.

I think it’s important to recognize the Overton Window is shaped by what is acceptable to voters. This means that the present state of affairs can only be the result of one or both of these scenarios:

Enough of the US voting population leans far enough right to move the window, or

Political policy is being dictated by forces other than what voters find acceptable.