Jonah Goldberg

It was signed off.

So it was not a profile encourage moment.

So it's about a lot of different things.

So part of it is just simply an argument about what kind of coalition you're going to have, but it's broader than that.

One of the things that the defenders of Tucker Carlson and the defenders of the Heritage Foundation will say, often with a little more paranoia than I think is warranted, is that this is really all a proxy war about J.D.

Vance.

I think that's overstated.

It is not all a proxy war about JD Vance, but JD Vance does lurk in the background here because Vance has blazed a path here where he's defended young Republican officials who had these chats about how awesome Auschwitz jokes are and how Nazis are cool.

He also would not be vice president

but for the fact that Tucker Carlson lobbied extensively for him.

And if Tucker becomes radioactive, that's bad for Vance.

If this crowd that he has defended and considers part of his coalition is purged, that's bad for him.

And so I do think that that's part of what's going on.

But I also think that, look, there are a lot of people who don't think that the right should be...

a popular front right and historically popular fronts are this thing more common on the left which you know on the left that used to be no enemies to the left and it was like don't don't shoot inside the tent don't pick them you know so what if we have stalinists in our coalition we're trying to stop the bad guys right that's the argument that is being used on the right right now is that the right needs to become a popular front needs to be a big tent we need a

groipers and groiper curious people to be part of our coalition because they bring youth and passion and energy and yada yada yada i think it's all nonsense um but it's also hypocritical because the very people like jd vance and others who are trying to make

the Republican coalition a safer place for these people.

Say that we have to purge the neocons from the conservative movement, that we don't want to hear from the zombie Reaganite crowd.

They have no problem silencing and trying to cancel members of the coalition they consider to be rivals.

They just use the language of inclusiveness for some of the worst people in the world because they think there's a political advantage to it.