The political battle lines in the United States are about things so elemental and fundamental that no compromise is possible and none should be considered. One 'side' is perfectly content to pillory people of color at every opportunity, demonize desperate refugees from a conflict the United States itself caused, send armed thugs into people's homes to kidnap their children, protect a law enforcement apparatus that brutalizes with impunity, push racist pseudoscience, and shelter out-and-out white supremacists.

When one side fundamentally rejects your humanity, you naturally don't have any room to compromise, and you don't have any time for the smug, ignorant centrism of people who are isolated from the consequences of the political struggle.