In her latest op-ed, published Monday, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin questioned the need for the Republican Party.
In the column heading “Do We Need the Republican Party?” – Rubin made the case that President Trump has decided the fate of the GOP after “years of racism and xenophobia” as a minority dependent on “White grief and cultural resentment.”
“The unusual truth for anyone who is expected to say ‘there are fine people’ in both parties is that, with the exception of a few stray drivers and sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), there really are no fine people there.” t run the Republican Party, “she wrote. “They sold their souls to Trump and passively or actively bought into white supremacy and religious authoritarianism. They waged war over the constitution and objective reality. There is nothing to redeem in any of that – as in the right media machine. who deceived the true believers and money-hungry charlatans into throwing red meat at an audience they thought consisted of uneducated bigots. “
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Rubin, an MSNBC contributor and self-described “conservative blogger,” suggested the Republican “death knell” came during the 2020 Democratic primary.
“We need a two-party system, but we do not have a two-ideological political culture if the price of admission is a reality, decent, inclusive and constitutionally respected ideology,” she explained. “If there is to be, as I hope, a grand coalition of center-right to center-left that defends universal constitutional government, it will limit the free market, globalization with a safety net, responsible international leadership and a determination to too root systemic racism, I’m not sure what that leaves to the opposition. Left may be Sanders-style socialism. But right? “
She went on to say, “Trump cultists and the proponents of zombie libertarianism continue to drive the party to the ground, lowering it to a regional party of dead-enders. Perhaps the real question is not what the Republican Party will believe and who will support it, but whether we need it at all. Maybe there is no moral, political and intellectually decent party of the right to be. “
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Critics of social media panned Rubin’s latest enthusiast.
“The conservative writer at the WaPo is clocking in!” National collaborator Pradheep Shanker exclaimed sarcastically.
“One of the main reasons the Washington Post is not a serious newspaper is that they distort Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot as legitimate conservative columnists while paying to write the same piece over and over again,” wrote Greg Price of The Daily Caller .
“First rule of authoritarianism: release from all opposition,” responded GOP commentator Scott Jennings.
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