11/10/2025
A friend, Kathy Kingsley, had the perfect phrase for political commentator Jen Rubin: "She bashes it on the crumpet!" Kathy, who made this sharp observation, is herself a fierce and passionate advocate for the arts, with a distinguished forty-year career as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She has co-founded dance companies, developed International Baccalaureate dance programs, and currently coordinates educational outreach with the Santa Fe Opera and the Kennedy Center.
Kathy's idiom is a brilliant way to say she absolutely hits the nail on the head—that Rubin's analysis is seen as exceptionally accurate and precisely identifies the core of the issue. This reputation for "bashing it on the crumpet" is built on her consistent, unflinching commentary.
When Rubin states, "We also know that President Trump is just a compulsive liar... this was in a class by itself," describes his policy-making as the "emotional temper tantrum of an unhinged president," or concludes he "has to be seen as a culmination of what I think were dark forces on the American right," that's exactly the type of precise, critical commentary the phrase describes.
