 Complete the following phrase:  Nishios new party was received with great fanfare by the media in Japan and initially received support from a number of prominent centrist intellectuals, leading to talk of a Democratic Socialist boom in the spring of 1960. U.S. diplomats also placed great hopes on the new party as a much-needed more moderate alternative to the left-wing opposition parties in Japan. However, Nishio and his new party sat out the Anpo protests, even as they became much more heated and contentious in May and June, and in the fall 1960 general election Nishio refused to say whether the protests had been good or bad, which pleased no one in the polarized atmosphere of the time. Nishio was one of the speakers at the televised election debate that witnessed the spectacular 