J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test

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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.

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.

#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?

#11 Why should you "...give a s**t what this person I've never heard of has to say"???

Indeed.

You gave such a little a s**t that you actually commented.

#11 Are you always so willing to humiliate yourself in public?

Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future and World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. He was previously the editor of The New Republic and a staff writer at Slate and New York magazine. His other books include How Soccer Explains the World and Jewish Jocks (co-edited with Marc Tracy), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

#23 Hey, bell boi... we're not the party that loves "Hamas," you buffoon.

We're the party that loves Hummus.

FFS.

apparently, the five stages of MAGA grief are denial, anger, podcasting, publicly making out with JD Vance, and selling merch.

just in case Erika Kirk profiting off her husband's murder doesn't creep you out enough, here's another fun thing the Garden Gnomists have done.

yup, they've recreated the tent where the misshapen gnome was assassinated " and the cultists are all invited to take selfies in it. how ------------- ghoulish is that?

you know where they got this brilliant idea to fetishize tragedy, don't you? from Dear Leader, who has turned an entire wall at the White House into a shrine to his Miracle Ear Nicking.