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Conservative warns Republicans that the great shrinking of the GOP is accelerating

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Throughout Donald Trump’s one term as president, conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin repeatedly warned that extremism would ultimately cause the Republican Party to shrink. And in a column published this week, Rubin stresses that the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building is causing the GOP to shrink even more.

Trump, in 2020, ran a rally-the-base campaign — and he continued to be popular with his hardcore MAGA base. But extremism, Rubin has been warning Republicans, alienates many others. And she makes her case by citing recent reporting by National Public Radio and The Hill.

Last week, The Hill reported that “more than 30,000 voters who had been registered members of the Republican Party have changed their voter registration in the weeks after a mob of pro-Trump supporters attacked the Capitol.” And this week, NPR reported, “In the week from Jan. 6 through Jan. 12, about 4,600 Republicans changed their party status in Colorado. . . . (Colorado Public Radio) was able to contact dozens of them by tracking changes in the state’s voter file…. The number of people changing parties spiked immediately after the Capitol breach. The same phenomenon is playing out nationwide. News outlets documented about 6,000 defections from the party in North Carolina, 10,000 in Pennsylvania and 5,000 in Arizona.” Continue reading.

Conservative writer says it all: ‘There is no excuse for supporting this president’

AlterNet logoWriting for the Washington Post  (and reprinted here in the Salt Lake Tribune)conservative commentator Jennifer Rubin expresses what every American possessed of any decency or moral clarity should realize, now that the the murderous effects of Donald Trump’s deliberate, hate-filled, anti-immigrant rhetoric have once again inspired a mass killing of innocent Americans, this time in El Paso, Texas. As Rubin observes, there is really no longer any doubt where the blame for these killings lies.

For decades now, Republicans have insisted mass murders with semiautomatic weapons are not reflective of a gun problem. I can no longer comprehend how such a ludicrous assertion is remotely acceptable. But in one sense they are right: It’s not merely Republicans’ indulgence of the National Rifle Association that puts Americans’ lives in jeopardy. It is the support and enabling of a president that inspires white nationalist terrorists – and even denies white nationalism is a problem.

Republicans in the United States Congress who claim to have any self-respect or moral conscience (assuming there are any remaining) really ought to pay attention to what she is saying—that their party, by its slavish acquiescence to Trump’s racism for purposes of political opportunism, shares with him the responsibility for these deaths.

View the complete August 5 article from Daily Kos on the AlterNet website here.