Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’

Donald Trump kept trying to thread the needle with birther accusations. Maybe this sitting president isn’t a real American. Maybe this election—of a man, by the way, who was scrutinized the first time he ran for office—is a case where we need to take a closer look. This all happens on a more fundamental level than policy disputes. It would be comed

Milo is a great case study in how the politics of taboo and heresy are used not to fight ideas but to defeat the people who hold said ideas.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the evangelical left operates. For them, a person’s actual identity does not really matter. A person’s actual actions do not really matter. What matters is the destruction of the heretic, and to take their criticisms and worldview at face value is to give them a validity that they do not possess.

It’s easy to caricature Jones as a lunatic or a clown. But Jones subtly and consistently preaches several essential New Right ideas. The first is that politics is often a public sideshow, a distraction that grants the illusion of choice when actual decisions are made covertly and secretly without even the pretense of public input. The second is tha