While I get the thinking behind your comment (though think the hyperbolic "extremist" part is silly and unhelpful), wasn't that the line before the election to ensure the least bad option got in over the historically bad option. Don't fight...
Went to see Ray Charles once, that one gig I sat mesmerised unable to do anything other than feel every note pass through me, completely awestruck.
When he sang Georgia you could hear every single person in the audience just breathing, no noise...