{"id":7971,"date":"2026-09-03T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:36:50","slug":"jd-vance-cant-outrun-his-tucker-carlson-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7971","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance can’t outrun his Tucker Carlson problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President JD Vance keeps trying to straddle a bright moral line \u2014 with predictably disastrous results.<\/p>\n

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The veep\u2019s appearance before the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas on Monday was highly anticipated because of his increasingly tenuous relationships with both the group\u2019s direct constituency and the pro-Israel, evangelical GOP base.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s troubles with both these key communities stem from both his seemingly unbreakable bond with Tucker Carlson \u2014 the country\u2019s leading antisemitic advocate \u2014 and his indulgence of a wide range of injurious conspiracy theories and tropes.<\/p>\n

In one particularly notable moment from his December speech before Turning Point USA\u2019s AmericaFest conference, Vance stuck his neck out for Carlson and rebuked Jewish-American commentator Ben Shapiro for calling him out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de-platform,\u201d Vance boasted at the time, repeating Carlson\u2019s mischaracterization of Shapiro\u2019s case for moral clarity.<\/p>\n

He doubled down in an eyebrow-raising interview that same week, downplaying the rising tide of antisemitism on the right and submitting that it\u2019s \u201cabsurd\u201d to suggest Carlson \u201chas no place in the conservative movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, Vance joined Joe Rogan for a sweeping conversation in which he accused the Israeli government of carrying out a \u201cvery discreet, extremely well-funded campaign\u201d to \u201cmanipulate American public opinion,\u201d and breathed life into the unfounded idea that Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad.<\/p>\n

All this to say: Vance had his work cut out for him on Monday.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t quite go as he planned.<\/p>\n

In a jaw-dropping faux pas, Vance confused blood libels \u2014 antisemitic smears, including the medieval lie that Jews used the blood of Christian children in religious rituals \u2014 with blood guilt, or \u201cthe idea that . . . because of your blood, because of your ancestry, you are guilty of a crime that you never committed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The flub not only betrayed a stunning lack of preparation, but revealed Vance\u2019s continued affinity for Carlson, who cites his rejection of blood guilt<\/em> as proof that he\u2019s innocent of antisemitism \u2014 even as he peddles a litany of blood libels<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Vance also rejected antisemitism in theory, but excused its real-life application for profit by Carlson and other click-thirsty grifters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recognize a lot of people in this room might disagree with things that Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly or Joe Rogan has said,\u201d he began, before drawing a distinction between Rogan and Nick Fuentes (\u201cwho, you know, really does hate Jews\u201d), the Hitler-loving provocateur Carlson hosted in a lovefest last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a mistake to sort of say we\u2019re going to write Joe Rogan off because he said something that we don\u2019t like,\u201d Vance declared. \u201cI think the best approach is to actually go in there, and talk to him, and make the arguments as best as you can.\u201d <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s all good and well, but when Vance sat down with Rogan, he fed rather than fought the anti-Israel conspiratorial fires.<\/p>\n

Moreover, his careful extraction of Carlson from the conversation spoke volumes.<\/p>\n

Fuentes is an open bigot, and Rogan is a meathead fond of every tale \u2014 no matter how tall \u2014 of intrigue he\u2019s ever heard.<\/p>\n

Carlson is a hundred times more dangerous than both, because he brings just as much odious hatred to the table as Fuentes but masks it with a gauche, faux-Christian cologne.<\/p>\n

A year ago, Vance offered this conniving chameleon a ringing endorsement.<\/p>\n

But with his own presidential campaign creeping ever closer, neither dodging the Carlson question, nor implicitly suggesting that he belongs in Rogan\u2019s relatively innocuous camp, will do.<\/p>\n

The vice president has obviously calculated that he needs the support of (and shares certain aspects of a worldview with) the vanishingly small Carlson wing of the GOP, and is thus taking pains to mollify it.<\/p>\n

To play both sides, though, is both political and moral folly.<\/p>\n

Even the little Nazis Vance has disavowed see right through his cynical, ill-advised balancing act.<\/p>\n

\u201cJD Vance panders to the far right but simply doesn\u2019t want the baggage of associating with the far right,\u201d Fuentes told The New York Times. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf he has a problem with \u2018antisemites,\u2019 then he should start by disavowing his best friend Tucker Carlson.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to argue.<\/p>\n

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Vance has deluded himself into believing he can have his foul, soul-sickening cake (courting the dregs of the far right) and eat it, too (retaining the support of traditional conservatives).<\/p>\n

His performance on Monday proved that an impossibility.<\/p>\n

Come the 2028 election cycle, the vice president will have to pick a side.<\/p>\n

He can cease appeasing the fringe, align himself with the righteous right and reap the political rewards.<\/p>\n

Or he can choose Carlson, alienate everyone, pay the political price and disgrace himself along the way.<\/p>\n

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