They are all using it like a verb, because it serves the (untrue) purpose of casting their opponents’ choice not to support as active obstruction. It’s cowardly, and dishonest, and that applies very broadly to everyone playing at this republic-killing game.
Nixon almost managed to cripple the Presidency for a very long time. A net positive. Carter, who is a moral man, but wrong about the moment he found himself in, nearly sealed it as a permanent fixture that the Presidency is laughable.
Since Reagan, the Presidency has become a cancer, a source of conflict, and the office most likely to get people killed. Every President since Reagan has managed to enhance this trend, esp. Bush II and Obama. The problems acting as a tearing centripetal force are often escalated by the Presidency’s overseas proconsular, nearly unilateral powers, powers that are invariably brought to bear against citizens in due course.
Look, I hate Georgia’s election shenanigans, and I think there are only wounds to come from Texas’ abortion law, but if we cannot use the federal legislature (and this will include Acts I don’t support) to establish the ground rules, Americans will turn to the executive and the judiciary to force or undo change, in wave after wave of reaction and counteraction.