Jennifer Rubin has been, is, and will be(more than likely) forever a shill for the GOP-E.
Anything she writes should be read in the context that she is a GOP-E Trojan Horse and is propped up by the Washington Post as their type of “conservative”.
Look into her background. She is a neocon par excellence: a liberal Democrat pretending to be conservative in order to promote open borders and a neocon policy.
It’s infuriating that such a non-conservative, intellectually mediocre hack is given such a high profile, prestigious position in the media to supposedly represent conservatives.
I think you get closer to the truth if you see her as Lucrezia Borgia working for the WaPo and the Creatures of the Hive Mind, spoon-feeding Orthenex to real conservatives slowly and attentively, to work the WaPo editors' will on Norman Rockwell's America.