“Evidence over ideology. Reform over rupture.”
Comfortable with change when it's well-designed, well-costed, and ratified at the ballot box. Allergic to both revolution and reaction.
Moderate reformers are the wonks: they like white papers, pilot programmes, and five-year plans with honest evaluation. They are often the swing voters who decide elections, and the think-tank staffers who write the manifestos they later vote for. They believe that most hard problems have technocratic answers — if only politics would get out of the way.