Posted on 10/30/2025 8:22:26 PM PDT by Kazan
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
One of the things that drives me nuts about the current era of political conversation and speech-policing is that nobody is ever honest about the end goal of certain tactics. So let’s just lay it out: the war against Tucker is actually a proxy war against J.D. Vance.
It is being waged primarily by interventionists who hate the foreign policy realism of the Trump era, hate that J.D. has embraced it, and desperately want to either get rid of J.D. or bully him into doing what they want. The war on Tucker is designed to be a warning shot at J.D. Vance.
So this is actually a foreign policy-oriented bullying campaign that is prepared to build itself into a vehicle for a contested primary battle against J.D. in 2028. And make no mistake: it was Trump’s embrace of realist foreign policy and his rejection of the failed interventionism of Bush-era elites which started this particular war.
Neocon interventionists, almost to a person, joined in on the Russia collusion hoax, and the Ukraine impeachment hoax, the J6 hoax, and also all the Biden DOJ lawfare. Go back and follow the coverage at the time. See who defended all the insanity, or said nothing in opposition to it.
Democrats cooked up that nonsense for partisan gain, while interventionists on the right fanned its flames as part of their proxy war against Trump’s foreign policy realism. Even the first assassination attempt against Trump, which occurred right before Trump’s formal GOP nomination in 2024, was timed to prevent him from picking J.D. as his vice president.
Lindsey Graham spent the weekend before the convention demanding that Trump pick someone, anyone, other than J.D. And foreign policy was the primary reason.
A ton of anti-Trump establishment elites have convinced themselves they can go back to the forever wars of yesteryear if only they can put Trump, and now J.D., in the rear view mirror. But they also have to control the entire foreign policy conversation so the voters, who got sick of the pointless wars long before the politicians understood what was going on, can be bullied into going along with whichever candidate the military-industrial complex wishes to shove down their throats. So that’s really what all of this is about: who gets to set America’s foreign policy.
Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.
The Republican establishment wants its party back and wants to turn back into the party George W. Bush and globalist/neocon foreign policy.
Darth Cheney wants his wars back.
The decrepit old warmonger is 85 at the end of January.
Donald Trump is only 79.
I could care less about the war on Tucker. He’s gone round the twist with his particular schtick. That said, the neocons can drop dead. They lost and they are not getting the GOP back. Trump won because the base was sick and tired of the GOPErs and their forever wars.
OK, Shill.
I mean whose side are you on? MAGA Trump, who bombed Iran, is sending weapons to Ukraine, and is blowing up Venezuelan boats, or Nick Fuentes and and Tucker Carlson? I’ll take the old warmonger.
LOL!
You were a Cruzer, back in the day...
MAGA is not allergic to war, killing or bombing locations or boats if they are needed. However, the differences with the neocons are:
1. As much a possible, avoid open war where people have to be involved in bloody conflict.
2. If US has to go to war, it is to win, with whatever means necessary so long as it’s justified. No more WOKE style that never win anything.
3. Make war as short as possible. Once the objectives are achieved, leave. Arrange that American interests are maintained.
So, no. MAGA is not like those neocons.
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I agree about Trump/Maga, but the Carlson/Fuentes/Sanders/Bannon axis oppose any use of American force. Opposed Iran, oppose stopping narco traffickers in Venezuela, and are anti-Trump on foreign policy.
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