Jennifer Rubin is ostensibly a conservative blogger at WaPo. Yet I'm hard pressed to find a more vitriolic anti-Trump voice. Today, she takes on two targets: the Know Nothing Trump Voter and the media who can't stop going on Cleetus Safaris. You've no doubt read a few Cleetus Safari pieces, where the intrepid NYTimes reporter heads to some godforsaken, dying mill town and comes back with the revelation that white people who don't know shit about shit voted for Trump.
What Rubin explores at the end of her piece is the counterpoint. For every embittered WWC male who blames his lack of employment on coloreds instead of Wall Street there's a pissed off suburban woman or two who has had enough.
It's been interesting to see the divisions on Twitter and blogs about Franken stepping down. Roughly there are two schools: "He had to go, because you can't tolerate that behavior" and "How come only our guys are held accountable, why don't Democrats play hardball." The calculus of jettisoning Franken is driven, I think, by the anger among a very sizable portion of the population and one that could swing dramatically in Democrat's direction. Roy Moore, should he win tomorrow, becomes a cudgel for Democrats to pummel the hypocrisy and greed for power at the expense of decency of the Republican Party.
Rubin - who was an avid supported of Mitt Romney - is one of millions of Republican leaning women who are abandoning the GOP in the Age of Trump. If Democrats catch a wave next November, it will be on the wind of millions of angry sighs from exasperated women.
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