Noah Rothman: “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.”
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