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JBTaurus83

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3. Good news!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu May 8, 2025, 07:32 PM

May 8

I do have a quibble about how the media frames things. These aren’t moderates broadly speaking, they are all very right wing. I suppose you could call them moderates within their own caucus. They did the same with the Democrats, calling Manchin and Sinema “moderates”. The language is oversimplified to describe who these people are.

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