Journalists, including today in @washingtonpost continue to refer to a group of Republican senators as "moderates." Moderates? Collins, Murkowski, Alexander, Romney? The first three filibustered the DISCLOSE ACT and said zilch about Merrick Garland, while supporting filibusters 1
against health care reform, and voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and for the reckless and radical tax cut, voted for extreme judges, including those rated unqualified by the ABA, for Cabinet members like Scott Pruitt who lied to the Senate, and for a slew of radical 2
executive branch officials. Romney has not voted against any radical or unqualified nominee since coming to Senate. None have raised a peep about reckless radical Trump policies, or demanded oversight for such. This stretches the definition of "moderate" way past breaking point.3
Good journalists have strained to fit a radical party that has swung sharply away from the center or even the traditional right into their conventional framework and descriptive narrative. But the lazy use of terms like moderate does a disservice to the reality of the GOP.
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