I’d say theory has been refined in practice.

Edit: And this is why I don’t like labels. You think you know what I said because I wanted to define your label.

Horseshoe Theory has many critics. I personally don’t think of it as elitism in the center and popularism at the ends. That’s not true - neither end is Popularist. These extremes just oppose whatever the democratic status quo is. They want extreme solutions and anyone who tries to moderate is labeled Elitist or Capitulant…both labels deny that most of us live in the center, trying to balance one sides wants with the other.

I reiterate: Labels are a bad idea.