Roger Kimball

And I think that what we're watching now is a kind of proxy war where Kevin Roberts and Tucker and others are just kind of cutouts for the unhappy denizens of what people call conservative ink.

And they are hoping to stage a comeback by using the rhetorical moral cover of anti-Semitism to

further their own anti-MAGA agenda.

The idea that Kevin Roberts is somehow anti-Semitic is calmy, really.

I mean, immediately after October 7, after the Hamas massacre in Israel, he established a task force to battle

anti-Semitism.

Victoria Coates, a scholar at Heritage, has been leading some of those efforts.

It's very robust.

And I would say that it's a kind of gigantic misunderstanding

But it's not a misunderstanding.

This is the next front of the battle between the deep state and the Donald Trump agenda, the Make America Great Again agenda.

Someone during Trump's first term talked about the need to deconstruct

the administrative state, I believe it was one S. Bannon.

And that indeed is the task before us.

But when I read things like I read just the other day that Mike Pence is considering a 2028 run, that's not going to happen, I believe.

But that just tells you what we're up against.

And the real battle here is not between Kevin Roberts and his support for Tucker.

The real battle is between the Make America Great Again agenda.

I like to spell out the acronym because

Often these days people use the term, the acronym MAGA, as a term of abuse.