© unherd.comDave Rubin and partner David Janet
The problem of gay surrogacy reminds us that the right's alliance with anti-woke liberals cannot and should not survive.
Dave Rubin began his career in the late 1990s as an intern for Jon Stewart, the putative comedian who was then host of
The Daily Show. In the first years of the new millennium, he transitioned to the podcast game, heading up such smash hits as
Hot Gay Comics and
The Ben & Dave Show, "the irreverent show where anything goes," under the aegis of here!, an LGBT TV network. By 2013 he was hosting
The Rubin Report, an online political talkshow, for Cenk Uygur's left-wing outfit The Young Turks. He went independent after a few years,
and ever since has been making a kind of public journey, from progressive to liberal to self-styled conservative (read: still liberal).
In an
interview last year with the Daily Signal, Rubin explained that,
while he has started to call himself a conservative, he doesn't actually mean conservative:
"I actually think that, even on the conservative side, there's a wide tent on all sorts of issues. So you could even take an issue like abortion, which for conservatives is like, you know, usually is thought of as the one that, you must be pro-life. Well, look, there's people like Rudy Giuliani — who's obviously a conservative, who obviously worked for President Trump — he's pro-choice, he's begrudgingly pro-choice. He wants very specific limits on it and things like that. No one is running around saying he's not a conservative."
I am. If we cannot draw a line in the sand between ourselves and those who would sanction the industrial slaughter of unborn innocents, then American conservatism is not just pointless but actively destructive.
I don't care how big the tent is; if it has baby killers in it, I'm leaving.
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