Jennifer Rubin on Va. Racist Scandals: ‘Democrats Are Much, Much Better’ at Handling These Incidents

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MELVIN: “Jennifer Rubin in your piece you point out the Democrats ability to rebuke one of their own, following Congresswoman Omar's tweet. You mentioned Nancy Pelosi’s hammer coming down with the statement on behalf of the entire House leadership, which actually led to Congresswoman Omar's apology as we understand. Do you get the sense that Dems are better at handling this kind of stuff, or do you get the sense that both parties' leadership, they've become quite astute at this sort of thing?"
RUBIN: “I actually think that Democrats are much, much better and much quicker to do it and it’s for a very simple reason; Republicans both in their makeup in Congress and in their constituency have become the party of white, mostly a male, in a good -- many senses southern party. They are the inheritors, if you will, of the people who used to be Dixiecrats in the south. And the Democrats as you see from this amazing diversity in Congress, are a much more far-reaching party. And so, when they have an anti-Semitic comment, that's made in their ranks, you’ve got 10, 12 Jewish congressmen to come forward. If there’s an anti-black, you know, incident, as there was in this horrible series of events in my state of Virginia, you have enormous pressure from both within and without. And the sad fact is that the Republican Party now relies upon wolf whistles and dog whistles and all sorts of signals to its base.”