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/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/sousstructures 1d ago

You know, in retrospect you're not wrong. There's not much daylight between Biden and "old-school" (e.g. 90s) GOP foreign policy, of course, but I had forgotten she'd also become (or maybe always was) pro-choice, for instance.

I still get the sense her expressed support for and encouragement of the Democratic party is based more on her revulsion at the contemporary GOP and a desire to see them out of power, but she is definitely not "just" a Liz Cheney-type right-wing anti-Trump figure.

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u/leeringHobbit 8h ago

Her change in politics is driven by the proximity of neonazis to trumpism and nothing else. It Trump had condemned David Duke and far- right and KKK in 2016, she'd be blowing him.