Who thinks of Scott as moderate?
He is a better fit for his state than Trump and can appeal better to the "swing voters / moderates" of his state (which includes rigth leaning blacks that don´t trust much the republicans) but that doesn´t make him a moderate.
There was once a time, before Trump arrived and dumped all over this country, that Scott was seen as the future of the Republican Party. A future that was younger, more racially diverse, more socially moderate, etc. South Carolina oddly had several of these politicians. Scott, Haley, Gowdy, and Graham to name a few.
Those days are done.
MAGA destroys everything it touches. It is a political movement that is toxic, unhinged and unattractive to anyone mentally stable under the age of 60.
On that imminent, blessed day when Donny boy chokes on his last Big Mac, Tim Scott will be left holding the empty bag and vying to be the king of the sh**t heap: flagbearer for a party that's mostly unviable outside of the great American emptiness.
Really, though? The first time I heard about Tim Scott was during his first run for Congress in 2010, when he beat Strom Thurmond's son in the GOP runoff. Like most new Republican candidates running in safe House seat that year, Scott ran as a "Tea Party" Republican. Nikki Haley also ran in a competitive primary that she probably would have lost without the support of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party (and the blog Red State, whose influence has declined so much from that era it's laughable). Trey Gowdy was a Tea Party Republican who unseated the "moderate" Bob Inglis in a landslide. And the Tea Party hasn't been relevant in years now since the GOP has moved so far to the right that most of those same people who ran as Tea Party supporters are hailed as moderates today.
The only person in that group who wasn't considered "Tea Party" is Graham, and he still moved further right so that enough Republican voters would at least tolerate him come primary day.
