Does the headline of this OpEd piece tell you anything about the mindset of its authors?

The Republicans usurped the center. Usurp, according to Dictionary.com, means, " To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force and without legal authority." I didn't realize that Democrats have the only legal right to occupy the political center. Even if they did, they've vacated it by their partisan strategy of blocking urgent measures requested by the President. People didn't like it when House Republicans shut down the government, and they don't like it when Democrats do it.