The Scrapbook has complained at least once in recent days about center-left news media using the terms “the right” and “conservatives” in highly tendentious ways.

We grant that it’s defensible, even if not strictly or literally true, to speak of the New York Times editorial board as “left” and the Wall Street Journal editorial board as “right.” It’s sometimes necessary for the sake of convenience to collapse an assortment of commentators and public officials into these broad terms. What’s not defensible is to use the terms “the right” or “conservatives” to denote people who bear little relation to anything credibly called conservative.