The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin is a weak, awful representative of Republican ideas
Christopher Tremoglie
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There may not be a worse television show currently airing than ABC’s The View. Dedicated entirely to a noxious combination of gossip and Democratic Party talking points, it tries nonetheless to keep a token non-extreme leftist on staff — over the years, this included Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Meghan McCain, Candace Cameron Bure, and Jedediah Bila.
Everyone is used to the outlandish and bonkers things said by The View hosts Whoopi Goldberg and the insufferable Joy Behar. Yet if any Republican viewers actually watch the show, they rely on the conservative host to represent their perspective to people too blindered and narcissistic to understand that there are, in fact, other points of view than their own.
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The current version of the token Republican is Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration employee and CNN commentator. Griffin embodies everything wrong with contemporary Republicanism. Sure, she defends a conservative or Republican position here and there against the most extreme statements of her colleagues. However, she embraces more of the weak, horrible “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” ideology than anything else. Griffin is about as loyal to the principles she once claimed to espouse as Judas was to Jesus.
Consider one of the episodes this week, in which Behar went off the rails again and said that she didn’t think the GOP would win another national election. She also said that there are so many tornadoes because of climate change.
“This is the beginning of the end of the Republican Party as I see it. I don’t think that they’re going to win elections anymore in this country. Not national elections,” Behar said. “They are on the wrong side. These kids were born in 1997, not 1897 — which is where the Republican Party is going. And they’re like, ‘Hey, whoa, hold up, I don’t want to get killed in school or be in the middle of another tornado or whatever the hell is going on in this country.'”
And what did Griffin say as the conservative retort on the show? She nodded along in agreement with Behar’s baseless drivel. Any conservative worth a damn would have challenged such nonsense, but not Griffin.
A few weeks ago, radical left-wing actress Jane Fonda was on the show, and the group discussed abortion. Fonda was asked what she thought could be done to stop a perceived anti-abortion threat in the country. She replied, “murder.” Fonda was allegedly joking. Nevertheless, the answer was tasteless and inappropriate. Griffin, again, said nothing, objected to nothing, and let the comment slide.
Previously, Griffin has also gone on record to praise Stacey Abrams for conceding elections — Abrams is best known as an election denialist who maintained she won in 2018 after she had lost.
Griffin has also echoed the oft-repeated and empty left-wing claims about alleged “threats to our democracy.” She agreed with President Joe Biden after his numerous warnings of the ominous dangers of “MAGA Republicans.” She echoed this hysteria, claiming that such “dangers” are “one of the biggest issues facing our country.” And her brand of conservatism is the one that demands conservatives compromise their values to appear more moderate and respectable. Ultimately, she has said, she could vote for a Democrat if Republicans don’t change.
“I’d be open to it on a case-by-case basis,” Griffin said on an episode. “I’d have to look at their policies, and that’s kind of where I am.”
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With weak Republicans like these representing them in public, is it any surprise that Republicans’ views are poorly represented?
There are numerous other examples of Griffin’s impotence in defending Republican social and cultural perspectives — too many to name. Admittedly, there probably aren’t many on the Right who legitimately watch The View or take it seriously. But it would be nice if the token Republican on the panel were an actual Republican capable of defending conservative ideas, not just another bog-standard talking head who doesn’t care or share anything in common with the overwhelming majority of Republican voters in the country.