I think there's some truth to the idea that they don't go for center right because they promise to do nothing useful for their voters.

My take is its less left/right and more useful/useless. Obama won big because people thought he'd do something.

Trump promised a lot of change and boy he's certainly doing exactly that.

At the end of the day though, I think the time of party politics is over. Whatever Americas gonna be like next its not gonna be this