Something I’m looking forward to is when we stop misusing the term “fiscal conservative.” Theoretically a fiscal conservative is someone who is focused on balancing the budget and paring down the nation’s debt. In practice, the people who we generally refer to as “fiscal conservatives” are people interested in destroying the social safety net while slashing taxes for those in high income brackets, with absolutely no regard for how that affects either the budget or the national debt. It’s actually really astonishing how the latter has come to define the term with almost no resistance from media outlets who are ostensibly providing straight news reporting.