Thursday, December 25, 2025

J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test

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Posted by A_Friend at 11:41 AM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.

On Sunday, J. D. Vance was presented with the simplest moral test: denounce commentators who traffic in medieval blood libels, who deny the Holocaust, and who endlessly harp on evil Jewish cabals.

The test was forced on the vice president. By the time he addressed the Turning Point USA conference this past weekend, it had turned into a referendum on latter-day Father Coughlins who have acquired substantial and growing audiences on the right. Among them is Candace Owens, whose YouTube channel has 5.7 million followers. She argues that there is a powerful, secret sect within Judaism practicing pedophilia. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson, who has 16.8 million followers on X, has shared his microphone with an unabashed fan of Adolf Hitler and with historians who minimize the Nazi dictator's evil.

#1 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-25 11:43 AM

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Their noxious theories about Jews became the defining question of the Turning Point confab. The podcaster Ben Shapiro denounced the anti-Semites. That prompted Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump, to cast Shapiro as a "cancer." By conducting their argument in public, the two sides"those who criticize anti-Semitism and those who tolerate it"were essentially begging Vance, the headliner of the event, to render a verdict.

When presented with the simplest moral test, Vance failed. "We have far more important work to do than canceling each other," he said, as if anti-Semitism were just one more woke fixation.

#2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-25 11:45 AM

Noah Rothman - JD Vance Picks a Side

Vance has made a choice here, and it's a clarifying one. His allies are telling us straight that this is all about JD Vance - his political ambitions, his position as Donald Trump's most likely successor, and, by extension, their own prospects when Trump is gone. Those voices claim that if you object to the rehabilitation of outright antisemitism on behalf of actual Nazis - not some tortured Democratic metaphor for fascism but the actual NSDAP circa 1920 to 1945 - you're the paranoiac here.

Vance will pretend as though he is disinterestedly arbitrating a political dispute on the right, but he's not. He has intervened in it on behalf of his allies and their revisionist historical project. If Vance's contention is that the figures like Shapiro, who aren't nobly attempting to talk sense to the talker class, are maliciously bifurcating the conservative movement and sowing division, the vice president's implicit outlook is that interventions like Shapiro's are the problem. That is an effort to shackle the interveners and arrest the rehabilitative process. Whatever else that is, it is not a neutral disposition.

#3 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-25 11:56 AM

- his position as Donald Trump's most likely successor,

Vance popularity with MAGA poll:

www.newsweek.com

He's nothing without the Cult Leader; he was disliked greatly for all his anti-Trump rhetoric before Trump re-formed him. In a Cult, there can really Be Only One.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-25 12:00 PM

Yes, but does he know what a giraffe looks like?

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-25 12:42 PM

#4 'Tis true, you know.

The Reverand Jim Jones, late of Guyana, left no designated successor.

What a short-sighted individual.

Where's his "Peoples Temple" today?

#6 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-25 12:49 PM

Israel is a Death Cult.

The US is in their Thrall. It's Embarrassing how any Crimes no matter how horrid, Any Excesses no matter how Egregious, are somehow Wholesome and even Righteous when they are the Perps.

Criticism of Murder and Expansionist Wars is somehow called "Antisemitic" if Jews are the Criminals.

No only are they given Aid and Comfort, Any Protests against these crimes are considered "Terrorism" and Felony Charges brought on people trying to Protest Murders. More punishment is given protesters than Killers,Netanyahu walks a free man.

The Real Terrorists are the IDF and the Israeli Right.

If MAGA goes full Anti Israel it would be the ONLY good thing to come of the whole mess.

Jonestown Resembles Israel more than MAGA.

It will end in a Similar way Too.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-25 01:07 PM

"Antisemitism" IS just another "Woke" fixation. A particularly Nasty One.

Jews are not a Victimized Group, they are Waging a Campaign of Extermination on people that are helpless, and are being helped by the US and Western Europe in their Unholy Attacks on Civilians.

The Hypocrisy is beyond anything seen in many years.

Palestinians are Painted as Devils,Terrorists who Kill for Nothing.

In Fact PALESTINIANS are the injured party not the Jews.

The Israelis have shown a Tribalism so Savage and Insular that they could rightly be called Insane.

Americans side with Israel as a matter of Tradition, not genuine interest.

American Zionists are ------- Protestants who only want the "Rapture"they think the horrors in Israel Presage.

They don't give a ---- about actual Jewish People.

MAGA reflects this inner contradiction.

A coherent foreign policy would put Israel in the Smallest Box they could.

Not Enable 20th Century Horrors in Palestine because they think the Jews are synonymous with Israel.

They Are Not.

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-25 01:26 PM

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