Republican S.E. Cupp wrote a heartbroken takedown of her own party for The New York Times

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http://theweek.com/speedreads/658003/republican-se-cupp-wrote-heartbroken-takedown-party-new-york-times

Republican S.E. Cupp wrote a heartbroken takedown of her own party for The New York Times
2:49 p.m. ET


Conservative commentator and writer S.E. Cupp really, really wanted to root for the Republican nominee. But after "witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women ... I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze," she writes in a new op-ed for The New York Times, "The Lonely Life of a Republican Woman."

Cupp decries the fact that Donald Trump has taken her party "back to the Dark Ages — or at least the 1950s," claiming that it is increasingly difficult for women Republicans to justify remaining with the right, even when it might be in their best interest in the long run:

Democrats' lofty language about empowering women sounds great (and way better than Mr. Trump's), but President Obama's economy has done just the opposite. By many metrics, women (and men) are worse off. The poverty rate is higher than it was in 2007. Real median household income is down. More Americans are dependent on the government for assistance. Homeownership is down. Student debt has skyrocketed, along with the national debt. We now know that Obamacare is becoming unaffordable.

None of this is empowering, not for working women, mothers, small-business owners or students. Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

But before we can make that case to women, Republicans will have to earn the right to be heard at all. That will require emptying the party of Mr. Trump's enablers. Who knows how long that will take, but in the meantime, women would frankly have to have been lobotomized to believe anything the Republican Party tells them. [The New York Times]

Read Cupp's tough-love takedown at The New York Times. Jeva Lange

[BSdetect]

1. Took her long enough to see what he represented?

Sorry, you are way too late.

How will you get rid of them? You were unable to see it coming so you lack the brains to deal with them now.

[blm]

2. Cupp seems to have forgotten that, because of Bush's collapse of the economy in 2008-9, we

are still dealing with the fallout and doing it while faced with the constant and malicious obstruction of 'her' party.

Don't you love how they CANNOT do a takedown of their party without throwing at least one big red meat lie to their loyal fans?

Blaming Obama for poverty rate higher than in 2007 - oh, BEFORE the big crash in 2008?

Median income down? Oh, because we're still digging out of the hole Bush-Cheney dug us INTO?

Homeownership, student debt, national debt? ^^^^^ see above^^^^^^^

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Yup, she conveniently dates her comparison pre-Lehman brothers even

Oh, the greatest financial catastrophe in a century has reverberating effects 7 years later? You don't say.

[stopwastingmymoney]

4. +1 choosing your dates of comparison is key in manipulating statistics

[blm]

6. Exactly. Still has to lie about Dems even when she's cornered into telling the truth about GOPs.

This hideous creature can take this editorial and ….. it…..far…..that…..Jeff Zuck……..couldn't……..flashlight

[C_U_L8R]

5. Sippy sad

Republicans are in denial that they made their party so noxious

[procon]

7. I recall her days on MSNBC.

She was part of the problem. How can any Republicans claim that they didn't see someone like Trump coming when they've worked so hard to pave the way! They spend all of Clinton's presidency trying to kill off the government. When Obama was elected they tried to wipe out the office of the presidency by nurturing the birth of the racist Tea Party and letting them wreak Congress to make the government dysfunctional.

Where was S.E. Cupp when all that was going on? She was making a name for herself defending Republicans no matter what they said or did. Blame everything on the Democrats because Republicans are not responsible for anything, and now she's shocked that a howling mad fascist is the face of her party?

Have some ketchup, dearie, I hear crow is easier to swallow with a little sauce.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Oh, boo hoo.

This imbecile was one of the many assholes who supplied Trump and his minions the gasoline all these years. Now she's surprised that all of their bullshit has exploded in their faces? Go to hell, you whiny, little hypocrite.

[ailsagirl]

9. I always found her thoroughly obnoxious

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. +1!

[Demsrule86]

10. MS. Cupp...the GOP Congress is to blame for any

economic issues...and the country seems in a much better state than 2008 when a million jobs a month were being lost...and on a dark night the GOP met to plot to destroy Pres. Obama's presidency with no interest in how such a thing would affect the American people...traitors that is what the GOP is and always will be in my opinion...and only a very foolish woman would belong to such a party.

[hatrack]

11. Boo-Fucking-Hoo, Sippy!

"Home ownership is down" - yeah, no shit, after your boy Chimpy and his buddies decided to have a big party with fraud, bullshit, robo-signed NINJA loans for a quick buck and a quick profit. The big banks were "made whole" with our money.

Meanwhile, what happened to the middle class? They got fucked -good and hard - by the people you voted for, supported and publicly defended - for years. They lost their homes, lost their jobs, and then got to enjoy the ritual humiliation of looking for work in an automated and ever-so "efficient" market so they could end up making $11/hour in an Amazon warehouse.

Could it be that the above had something to do with rising poverty rates? With greater dependence on government programs? With higher student debt? You bet you dumb Republican ass it does. And you just now figured this out?

Oh, but Trump! He's . . . so . . . rude!

Go the fuck away, you stupid cow. I hear Five Guys is hiring (part-time, no benefits, of course).

[DFW]

13. Cheneybush cut off her legs, and Cupp whines that Obama won't let her run races

Rodney Whitaker once wrote about the American penchant for twisting facts to conform to preconceived notions.

Here is a prime example. The only concession to reality that Cupp makes is acknowledging that Trump isn't about to make things better.

What incredible insight, eh?

[workinclasszero]

14. Typical republican

They never give a shit who is getting hurt by republican party evil until it affects them personally. I really feel for you S.E. Cupp