We know about CNN Republicans and MSNBC Republicans, but there are also NPR Republicans. Brendan Buck, a former aide to Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, is a semi-regular pundit on Meet the Press. On Thursday, Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep kept asking Buck to describe Republicans as insincere extremists who don’t want to govern. Buck played right along, calling conservatives “post-policy.”
Buck lamented that old-guard leaders like Mitch McConnell don’t get enough respect:
BUCK: The Senate is starting to feel a lot more like the House, where you have a bunch of more conservative senators who are, frankly, undermining their leadership at every turn and then turning around and saying, gosh, isn’t our leadership bad? So it just feels like there isn’t enough respect and trust in leadership right now to assert their will in the way that Mitch…
