Washington Post "Right Turn" columnist Jennifer Rubin says it is immoral to prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in a general election and if Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination the party should be abandoned and a new conservative political party created.
Rubin on Sunday evening responded to a tweet by Washington Examiner columnist Hugh Hewitt promoting his column listing reasons to prefer a Trump presidency to a Clinton administration by questioning Hewitt's morality:
She also declared that Republicans must remove themselves from the company of racist Trump supporters:
In a Monday
opinion piece in the Post, she stated that a Trump nomination would spell the end of the Republican Party.
"Let's face it: There is a lot deserving of abandonment in the GOP right now," Rubin writes. "Nativism has thoroughly infected its agenda, turning otherwise well-rounded conservatives into small-minded xenophobes. The inability to recognize lost causes (reversing gay marriage) and the refusal to address real ones (e.g. poverty) have paralyzed too many Republicans."
Veteran GOP operative Matt Mackowiak expressed a similar loathing for Trump supporters Sunday in the wake of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' endorsement of the real estate billionaire.
Mackowiak, a political and communications strategist who served as press secretary to former GOP senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and Conrad Burns, tweeted that Republicans who endorse Trump should be branded for life:
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