He doesn't know it and now he's gone, but Chris Licht's plan for CNN was an ideological project.
Here, Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon, Jr. describes what that project is.
"This anti-woke centrism often sounds as though people are auditioning to be today’s version of the 'white moderates' the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. castigated six decades ago..."
To my mind it's a brilliant take down of centrism. See if you agree.