FOR OVER A DECADE, I'VE HEARD/READ THE NOISE MACHINE

describe liberals as the "far left," so it's nice to see that POLITICO has the gumption to accurately describe the Baggers:

There’s a new public enemy No. 1 in Senate GOP circles, and it’s not Ted Cruz.
It’s the Senate Conservatives Fund, an organization that used to prop up underdog conservative candidates but now is training its fire mainly on Republican incumbents — rather than Democrats. The group has ginned up anger on the far-right towards Republican senators for refusing to use a government shutdown threat as leverage to defund Obamacare — a campaign that has been good for its bottom line.