@thomasfuchs get these big words out of my face, ya filthy marxist! /s

jokes aside, it's not really an issue with another better term not existing, it's more or less a remnant of the time when right wing pundits pretended to be not right wing like Tim Pool or Dave Rubin who started out as pretending to be left wing, or a bunch of others who pretended to be "about the facts, not politics" (I believe Steven Crowder used that)