Jeremy Boreing

I understand why they've taken that view.

And I think there's a lot of truth to the view, but I don't think that the view is entirely true.

I think friendship should cause us to give people a lot of latitude, a lot of rope, to try to deal with things privately before we try to deal with them publicly.

I mean, friendship is an incredibly important virtue, right?

And of course, friendship can't ultimately prevent us from being publicly critical when we've exhausted all these other

mechanisms.

So probably I have a more nuanced perspective on that maybe than some others, but

But all of that to say, yes, maybe that's why J.D.

Vance seems so aligned with Tucker.

And if so, understandable.

There's also a political reality.

J.D.

Vance has to keep together the Trump coalition in order to have a chance to be president in three years.

And that means that he probably politically, from his point of view, needs all the people who listen to Tucker just as much as he needs all the people who listen to Ben Shapiro.

Donald Trump, particularly in 2020 and 2024, did a great job of building that coalition.

I think

and others have said as much, so this is not an original thought, I think that Tucker is doing an enormous amount of damage to the Trump coalition.

And I think that that will become a political liability, if left unchecked, for JD Vance.

But right now, if I'm JD Vance,

I can understand politically why you wouldn't want to get into the business of dividing up the coalition, drawing lines, which makes it harder, presumably, to become the next president.