Bouvard on Appeasement and Far-Right Antisemitism

Making conciliatory gestures to groypers and Tucker Carlson fans gets you a campaign against your Jewish chief of staff. You invite them to up the ante and demand signs of fealty. Anyone who doesn't understand this probably shouldn't be president.

@Imperius__13 That's a way of saying he isn't ready.

@Imperius__13 He's not the demonstrated center, though--that's still the question. There will be a contest. (And I've never said anything about Rubio.) You might also consider that explaining who Tucker Carlson and these other people are might be an attempt to show him something.

@Imperius__13 If Vance doesn't understand what it means to introduce the toxins of Jew obsession into the body politic then that's the first lesson he needs to take in.

@Imperius__13 And today I, and many others, are pointing out to him the most obvious thing to do, which would furthermore be the right thing to do from every angle. It's like showing someone where the "ON" switch is.

@Imperius__13 The problem is that the panicans and media ops see Vance as the weak link, and he doesn't seem to give them much reason to think otherwise. Did you see that Scott McConnell (never heard of him but he's "cofounder" of Am Conservative) was calling on Vance to coup Trump?

@Imperius__13 In that case it's in his interest to show he understands that.

@Imperius__13 I haven't said much about Vance for a while but I jumped in here because it's hard to see anything easier than defending his chief of staff, especially when so many others in the space have. A seeling point of his is loyalty to his subordinates, which presumably justified

@Imperius__13 attacking an obscure journalist who raised questions about Buckley Carlson. He himself set a kind of precedent there and it seems to me all upside to weigh in here as well. Maybe he still will, but it would have been better to do so right away. Maybe someone should tell him.

@Imperius__13 There are all these people who seem to me to be trying to help him by paving a smooth path for him to just say, yes, Jacob is a great asset and those attacking him are attacking the administration. What's the problem here?

@Imperius__13 OK, I've done what I can to show you what I see as the issue here. People have a right to observe Vance and will continue to do so.

@Imperius__13 Vance has already referred to Fuentes and boosts Carlson whenever the occasion permits--it's not like this stuff too low for him. He could refer to an account with 500K followers--it's not some obscure corner. It still seems to come down to him not wanting to offend some

@Imperius__13 some people who it might actually be in his interest to offend. Anyway, people notice such patterns and there will be questions raised in and leading up to the campaign. There's much I don't see, but his approach is puzzling to me.

@Imperius__13 Lines are being drawn--it will be interesting to see who joins the attack on Reses, who hits back, and who remains silent. It's a test. Vance has not been averse to entering even obscure online controversies.

@Imperius__13 Yes, "mystery party." There are quite a few people who understand this is not only about reassuring a few rich Jews in private, but, like I said, I think we've reached the limits of this discussion. I along with others will see how Vance's strategy evolves.

@Imperius__13 We just have incommensurable readings of the situation. We'll see how it plays out.

@Imperius__13 i didn't initiate this conversation.

@Imperius__13 Weird digression.

@Imperius__13 I said that? It doesn't seem to be my style, but, who knows? The difference between us here is that some of those people you would include in that "dynamic coalition" will, I think, destroy it and should therefore be weeded out. And therefore you misread my "interests."

@Imperius__13 Yes, I think Netanyahu has been the best possible PM for Israel and I'm not going to go back and check that thread so there's no point to denying the particulars. It may have been a lapse, as I like to keep my claims more minimal, as above in this post. Right now I wouldn't say

@Imperius__13 anything about his psychological effect on Israelis, so I'd have to wonder what I was thinking.

@Imperius__13 You are of course free to listen or not to whomever you like.