Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin slammed over op-ed asking, 'Do we even need the Republican Party?'

[Michie]

From the article.
The self-described 'conservative blogger' was mocked on social media

In her latest op-ed, published Monday, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin questioned the necessity of the Republican Party.

In the column -- headlined "Do we even need the Republican Party?" -- Rubin made the case that President Trump has sealed the GOP's fate after "years of racism and xenophobia" as a minority dependent on "White grievance and cultural resentment."

"The unpleasant truth for those expected to say 'there are fine people' in both parties is that, aside from a few stray governors and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), there really are not fine people running the Republican Party," she wrote. "They have sold their souls to Trump and either passively or actively bought into white supremacy and religious authoritarianism. They waged war on the Constitution and objective reality. There is nothing redeeming in any of that — or in the right-wing media machine encompassing the deluded true believers and money-hungry charlatans willing to throw red meat to an audience they suppose consists of uneducated bigots."

Rubin, an MSNBC contributor and self-described "conservative blogger," suggested that the "death knell" of the Republican Party came during the 2020 Democratic primary.

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Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin slammed over op-ed asking, 'Do we even need the Republican Party?'

 

[BobRyan]

From the article.
the Republican Party.... charlatans willing to throw red meat to an audience they suppose consists of uneducated bigots."

Rubin, an MSNBC contributor and self-described "conservative blogger," suggested that the "death knell" of the Republican Party came during the 2020 Democratic primary.

"audience they suppose consists of uneducated bigots"?? or Rubin supposed consists of uneducated bigots?? which is it??

 

[Albion]

There have been other comments here or there that if the Biden team wins the White House and both houses of Congress this year, that those people will move to create a one-party form of government.

IOW, this particular report about Jennifer Rubin doesn't seem too unexpected.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I struggle to think of any reality-based solutions proposed and advocated by Republicans in the last 20 years.

Their tax cut and other economic policies have continued to fail where implemented (e.g. Kansas).
They have nothing on health care.
They have nothing on education except vouchers, which haven't worked.
They've gotten us into wars then they then bungled.
The more recent incarnations of their trade policy would be laughable if they didn't harm so many people.
The more recent incarnations of their immigration policies have been needlessly harsh and xenophobic.
They consistently pander to and/or accommodate racists.
I'm more sympathetic to the pro-life argument than most, yet despite the success of some of their judicial maneuvering, they've been entirely ineffective in swaying public opinion on the subject.
They've consistently attacked and undermined good governance in a way that fulfills their prophecies of government as broken and ineffective.

There's nothing there. Every time I try to engage with a Republican these days, I get little more than dishonesty and propaganda. To answer the question, no, I don't think we need that.