Jennifer Rubin Should Chill
Jennifer Rubin is a columnist for The Washington Post and commentator for MSNBC. Once upon a time she was considered a conservative writer—indeed, her hiring by The Post in 2010 was met with controversy specifically because the establishment liberal paper had hired a right-leaning blogger. In 2013, WaPo’s former ombudsman wrote an open letter calling on Jeff Bezos, who had then just bought the newspaper, to fire her for being too pro-Romney and anti-Obama.
Times have certainly changed. Ever since Donald Trump burst onto the scene, Rubin has become a prolific Never Trump writer and commentator; if the dictionary had an entry for Never Trump, her picture would appear next to it. She inveighs constantly against Trump, along with everyone and everything that helps to normalize him. She recently called for people to boycott MSNBC, one of her employers, as a result of Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski deciding to meet with Trump. Needless to say, she no longer identifies as a conservative.
In a recent episode of her podcast, she offered some provocative—some would say alarming—advice to Democrats to improve their messaging. She instructed them to make pithy statements like “Republicans want to kill your kids.”
“Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true.” – Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post columnist
Absolutely unhinged. ????
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) November 19, 2024
That clip went viral on social media for obvious reasons. It’s never wise to place automatic faith in short, viral video clips, and so I went looking for the rest of the video. It’s available here; the “Republicans want to kill your kids” part starts at around the 4:20 mark.
It sounds like she really means it!
Rubin provides two examples to justify her blanket statement that “Re
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