Since 2016, she has evolved into a stalwart never-Trump Republican, even as many of his other former critics jumped on the Trump train. She has switched over from trying to flatter the GOP’s id to stoking Democrats’ — fit with an MSNBC contract and a book coming out next week called “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump.”
Perhaps most surprising of all, however, is how, over the past eight months, she has distinguished herself as the Biden administration’s favorite columnist.
Chief of Staff RON KLAIN has retweeted or @ mentioned Rubin more than three dozen times since mid-May. The White House press team, the Democratic National Committee, the State Department, and the vice president’s office have all promoted various columns and tweets from her in recent weeks.
That’s because Rubin usually backs up the administration. In the past month, her headlines included: “Biden delivers straight talk — and wins kudos,” “The State Department deserves more credit for its effort to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan,” and “Why Kamala Harris’s trip to Asia was so important.”
It’s been a mutually beneficial relationship. Though it often dismisses the Beltway press, the administration can leverage the credibility that comes with a washingtonpost.com link. And Rubin’s columns are frequently among the most popular on the site, according to Washington Post employees.
But Rubin’s emergence as one of the administration’s go-to validators has stoked some divisions among Democrats and within the Post newsroom itself.
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