Meghan McCain says she’s stuck at an ideological crossroads thanks to a media narrative that translates: “The only way to become a good Republican is to become a Democrat.”
The in-house Republican of ABC’s “The View” told her colleagues that there is a double-standard of “broad-stroke platitudes” that allows all Republicans to be painted as QAnon supporters, while Democrats avoid similar labeling from the right.
“As much as the left wants to act like Republicans are only QAnon supporters, part of the problem is when I hear that, I automatically get very tribal,” Ms. McCain said Tuesday. “I think the idea that the Republican Party is just one swath … it’s just not nuanced.”
Ms. McCain added that Democrats should be known as “the party of socialism and late-term abortion and cancel culture” if media outlets applied their rhetorical rules consistently, Mediaite reported.
“The problem I have is the only way to become a good Republican is to become a Democrat, according to the media,” she continued. “I don’t know what to do anymore.”
Liberal co-host Whoopi Goldberg, a long-time critic of former President Donald Trump who refused to say his name aloud, disagreed.
“Republicans have brought this on themselves,” she replied.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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