Thread by @KevinMKruse

Let me put this another way:

For 1973, Joe Biden's first year in Congress, the American Conservative Union judged that Sen. Jim Eastland (D-MS) and Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-GA) were more conservative than 23 of the 44 Republicans in the Senate.

https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1141475888602726400

Here, you can see several of the Republicans who were rated as *less* aligned with the stances of the American Conservative Union than Eastland and Talmadge that year.

acuratings.conservative.org/acu-federal-le…

And if you go further down, you’ll find the remnants of the more liberal Republicans, like Ed Brooke and Jacob Javits.

Heck, Clifford Case is rated as less reliably conservative than Ted Kennedy.

The @ACUConservative website is really well done, with ratings for both the House and Senate from 1971-2018 and easily sorted through.

Check it out here: acuratings.conservative.org/acu-federal-le…