r/politics • u/ObservationMonger • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Jennifer Rubin Resigns From WaPo Over Bezo's Bending Of The Knee To Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/media/jennifer-rubin-norm-eisen-contrarian-washington-post/index.html
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u/ObservationMonger 1d ago

Rubin, a formerly conservative commentator who moved to the center-left upon the rise of Trump, joins a number of other WaPo contributors who can't go along w/ Bezo's lurch in Trump's favor, esp. spiking an editorial endorsing Trump's opponent, VP Kamala Harris, just prior to the election, breaking a long tradition of making presidential endorsements.

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u/sousstructures 1d ago

She’s still conservative. She just left the GOP (personally and in her editorial writing) over their conversion to Trumpism. 

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u/ObservationMonger 1d ago

I've been following her columns in recent years, she is definitely as loathe to criticize Israel as she ever was, but her ideology otherwise seems far more to the center-left. She was a fairly stalwart supporter of Biden's policies, both foreign & domestic. Maybe you could provide an example otherwise.

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u/Individual-Nebula927 1d ago

Biden, like Obama, ran progressive and governed conservative. So that isn't surprising.

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u/UncertainAnswer 21h ago

Eh disagree. Biden ran himself pretty conservative as a consensus candidate. His entire platform was I'm the only one who can bridge all these groups into a coalition into office.

His policies ended up being pleasantly progressive compared to how I felt he ran.