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• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Gottfried

Although I can't think of a single social issue on which the predictably soporific Washington Post-columnist Jennifer Rubin sounds different from Barack Obama, Rubin, who welcomes gay marriage as a sign of the "inexorable course of greater inclusiveness" and favors amnesty for illegals, is now a certified voice for "serious conservatives."  Indeed she writes a column for the Postbearing the ideologically significant title "Right Turn." Jennifer flaunts her assigned credentials as the purveyor of "the conservative perspective" in her columns and in her appearances on Fox-news, and while railing obsessively against the "xenophobia" of Donald Trump. Not at all surprisingly, she calls on her fellow-"serious conservatives" and "sensible Republicans" to treat this billionaire who is in her crosshairs as a "pariah." It seems that the very outspoken Trump is dishonoring "serious conservatism."

Jennifer's claim to speak for the "Right" is truly outrageous and I can't think of anything of hers that I've read that didn't give her away as a conventional Jewish liberal. But her denunciations of Trump provide food for thought. Although no one but a fool would imagine that Trump throughout his career has been consistently on the right, none of the Donald's competitors, as Jack Kerwick has shown on (believe it or not!) townhall, can boast of a consistently right-wing record on immigration, resisting the temptation to kowtow to minorities allied with the Democrats, and opposing the expansion of the welfare state. Trump is far from the only GOP presidential hopeful who has jumped to the right during primary season. To her credit, however, to get back to my main point, Jennifer does make one reflect about the meaning of "conservative" at the present time


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