There are certain things there can be no middle on. If you're "championing the middle" you're pqndering to and offering safe space to wannbe despots, authoritarians and fascists.
I've been saying this for a few years now. Nobody gets to sit on the fence on this one. Remember what happened to fence sitters in Nazi Germany.
Pick where you want to stand. You fence sitters have already ensured that it's going to get bloody.