Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone. Um, a lot one of the [00:02] topics a lot of people have been talking [00:03] about lately is J. D. Vance and whether [00:07] or not he is the best choice to be the [00:10] nominee for the presidency next time [00:12] around. And Victor Davis Hansen was on [00:15] his podcast recently and he was talking [00:17] about this issue and I've got a few [00:19] things to say about it. So, let's first [00:20] take a look at Victor Davis Hansen. Here [00:22] we go. this anti-Semitic Israel [00:26] uh hard right stuff is not solved [00:30] then I think uh the Republicans have a [00:33] they have to find a way of solving it [00:35] without alienating people who have been [00:38] misled [00:40] uh and blaming them but you have to be [00:43] when I say misled I mean if anybody buys [00:46] into the idea that the Jews are [00:47] responsible for malades they're crazy [00:51] and you know I think Maybe part of it is [00:53] they say, "Well, Jewish u people are 75% [00:57] Democrat." That's changing. And what you [01:00] want to do is is ensure that nobody on [01:04] the right is anti-Semitic because we [01:06] know the left is. That's the whole [01:08] essence of the pro Palestinian radical [01:11] Israel is a colonial settler, all that [01:15] stuff that we see on campuses. [01:18] And Victor, we were just talking about [01:19] the 2028 elections or potential [01:22] candidates, I should say. And I was [01:25] wondering you and everybody seems to be [01:29] assuming that Vance would be the [01:30] presidential [01:32] um candidate and Rubio the vice [01:34] presidential, but it might make more [01:37] sense to have Rubio as the presidential [01:40] candidate. And so you've been suggesting [01:43] that [01:44] um if Vance can overcome this [01:47] anti-semitism that is implicit in some [01:51] of his relationships, I guess you would [01:53] have to say then [01:56] then that would be fine. Maybe Vance [01:58] could hold it. But Rubio could hold it a [02:00] lot better. He has a little bit more [02:01] charisma, I think, than Vance does. And [02:03] so it's going to be a [02:05] >> I don't know about that. I did. But [02:06] there was something that just an [02:09] ironclad reality. [02:12] JD Vance is not going to be vice [02:14] president for four years under Donald [02:17] Trump and then turn around and say I [02:20] have four more years under Marco Rubio. [02:22] It's just not going to happen. I'm [02:24] sorry. He's going to run for president [02:26] and if he doesn't get the nomination, [02:28] he's not going to be picked by Rubio. [02:31] Uh, Rubio can be picked by Vance and he [02:35] can say you can serve for eight years [02:37] like George HW Bush and then you can [02:40] come in. Rubio is still young enough, I [02:42] think his late 50s that he could he [02:44] could do that in his 60s. They're both [02:47] very good. They're both very good with [02:49] the media. They're both very good on the [02:51] issues. As I said, the only problem that [02:56] Vance has, I'll give you one um example. [02:59] So it was Holocaust Remembrance Day and [03:02] Vance talked I thought quite movingly [03:05] about the tragedy of the Holocaust [03:08] but he didn't mention the Jewish people [03:11] and you know there's 6 million Jews [03:13] there was about a million and a half [03:14] other people but there's a tendency is [03:18] now in popular culture for people to [03:20] latch on to the Holocaust and they'll [03:22] say well there was 27 million Russians [03:25] killed there was 20 million Chinese [03:28] Yes, but these were mostly in combat [03:32] situations or collateral damage through [03:34] bombing etc. What was unique about the [03:37] Holocaust was there was a systematic [03:41] ideological effort to take citizens that [03:45] were not combatants and pull them out of [03:48] every different country regardless if [03:49] they were an ally or an enemy of the [03:53] Third Reich and then find an industrial [03:56] way of killing them. Not shooting them [03:58] initially, not gassing them and with the [04:00] carbon mon. I'm talking about making [04:02] death camps and using German engineering [04:05] and expertise to make special types of [04:08] crematoria and Zyon Zikon B and etc. [04:13] That was unique. And when you talk about [04:15] the Holocaust, you have to mention that [04:18] that it was a yes, there were people who [04:21] were slaughtered, who were civilians, [04:22] maybe 8 million, but the majority of [04:25] them were Jewish people who were [04:27] selected because of their ethnic [04:31] background and religion and traditional [04:35] role in European society has been very [04:37] successful, competent, good citizens and [04:40] they were and that has to be the lesson [04:43] of the of the Holocaust. Whereas now, [04:46] you know, when the the Palestinians said [04:48] there's a genocide, so we we had our [04:50] holocaust, etc. And I think he aired by [04:54] not saying that about the Jews. And [04:59] uh so I like both of them. I have no, [05:03] you know, I'm not preferring one or the [05:05] other at this point. I'm just saying [05:07] that uh the conventional wisdom was that [05:10] Marco Rubio was not interested and JD [05:15] Vance was the era parent. But the rise [05:18] of the Groper uh Nick Fuentes, the [05:22] Tucker Carlson interview has shaken a [05:25] lot of the uh I would call them the more [05:30] moderate people. I don't know how the [05:32] coalition that makes up the Trump [05:34] constituency. [05:36] And what I mean by that is they're going [05:39] to have to deal with it. And JD Vance is [05:41] going to have to find a way to reassure [05:43] Jewish voters and people who are angry [05:46] about the new anti-semitism on the right [05:49] that he abhores that [05:53] um and then still find a way to appeal [05:57] to this lost generation of white males [05:59] that have been given the short end of [06:01] the stick because of globalization and [06:04] wokeness and DEI and the whole radical [06:07] feminism. These people are rapist, toxic [06:10] masculine etc. [06:12] >> All right. [06:14] >> Okay. So, I have a few thoughts about JD [06:16] Vance and um in no particular order. [06:20] First of all, I like the guy. I think [06:22] he's great on policy. I like what he [06:24] stands for. Um I think he's an excellent [06:26] communicator. I was thrilled when [06:29] President Trump chose him as a running [06:32] mate. And I think that the Jewish [06:33] community is extremely sensitive, maybe [06:36] oversensitive when it comes to things [06:38] like, oh, he didn't mention the Jews [06:39] when he was talking about the Holocaust. [06:40] And maybe they're right that it signals [06:42] something deeper, but I don't care about [06:43] all that. Uh, I think that there are [06:46] there are two issues for me with JD [06:48] Vance. One is, again, as much as I like [06:52] the guy, his political career has not [06:55] been going on very long. Okay? his [06:57] resume before becoming vice president [06:59] was simply that he uh he uh he served in [07:02] the in the Marines, excuse me, he served [07:05] in the Marines. He went to Yale Law [07:07] School. He worked [clears throat] for a [07:08] little while as a lawyer and then he [07:10] wrote a best-selling book, a memoir, um [07:14] Hillbilly Elegy, and then he shortly [07:17] after that, so he became a public [07:19] intellectual and then he ran for Senate [07:22] in the state of Ohio and he won. and [07:24] barely into his first term, he was [07:27] chosen by President Trump as his running [07:28] mate. So, he officially served two years [07:30] of his term, but he was on the campaign [07:31] trail for a lot of that. He barely has [07:34] any political experience. And the reason [07:36] that that's an issue for me, I mean, you [07:38] could say President Trump didn't have [07:39] political experience, but there's a very [07:40] big difference. What makes President [07:42] Trump President Trump is that he has [07:45] these decades of negotiations and [07:47] entrepreneurship and that involves a lot [07:49] of risk-taking and independent [07:50] decision-making and all of that all of [07:53] those aspects of his personality were [07:54] honed over decades and decades and [07:57] that's what makes him who he is where [07:58] he'll sit and listen to all the experts [08:00] but then he'll make an independent [08:01] decision. A great example is the move of [08:02] the embassy to Jerusalem that all the [08:04] experts were saying it's going to cause [08:06] all sorts of regional unrest and it [08:07] didn't and he made an independent [08:09] decision regardless of what the experts [08:11] had to say. someone with with such a [08:14] small amount of experience with so [08:16] little experience who's also never [08:18] managed people. He didn't build a [08:19] business. JD Vance is exactly the type [08:23] of profile. He's a great communicator. [08:26] He's a great thinker, but he's exactly [08:27] the type of profile to really rely on [08:30] his adviserss who have that experience. [08:32] And that I think means that despite the [08:34] fact that there's a commonality between [08:36] Trump's ideas and Vance's ideas [08:38] politically as as leaders, I expect [08:41] Vance to be someone controlled by the [08:44] adviserss around him and really [08:46] deferring to them. And that would mean [08:49] uh a lot less of what President Trump [08:51] brings to the table. That's one issue. [08:52] Now, on to the issue of the of the [08:55] association with Tucker Carlson. And I'm [08:57] not passing judgment on this. I'm just [09:00] giving you what I believe politically [09:01] speaking is the lay of the land. Tucker [09:04] Carlson is so toxic and has alienated so [09:08] many clearing and middle-of the road [09:10] people including the Jewish coalition. [09:12] And you know, there's a lot of people [09:14] who came over to Trump because of what [09:16] Trump because of Trump's personality and [09:18] because what of what he offered who are [09:21] turned off by everything going on there [09:23] with Tucker and the other people in that [09:25] camp that I believe the following will [09:28] happen if JD Vance is the candidate. [09:30] Here's what I believe will happen. I [09:32] believe that someone on the Democrat [09:34] side, probably Gavin Newsome, will pivot [09:37] towards rhetoric that is more pro-Jewish [09:40] and pro-Israel. They will lean in [09:42] whoever the Democrat candidate in will [09:44] lean in on the attack on the association [09:47] with Tucker Carlson. JD Vance because of [09:50] his principles and his relationship will [09:52] refuse to disavow Tucker Carlson [09:55] and they'll use this as a cudgel and [09:58] it'll end up hurting that campaign. Now, [10:00] let's remember also in a campaign where [10:03] there's high voter turnout that favors [10:04] the Republicans. The Republican side has [10:06] a lot more people who are fairweather [10:10] voters who don't vote in every election. [10:12] That's that's what the Trump coalition [10:13] was built on. It was built on getting a [10:15] lot of people who had never voted before [10:17] to jump on the bandwagon and vote. A lot [10:19] of those people will stay home if it's [10:20] JD Vance. And that's what I fear. And [10:24] again, and part of it will be this [10:26] association uh with with some people who [10:29] are unfavorable. JD Vance is a young [10:31] guy. He's very young. and he has a very [10:33] long political career ahead of him if he [10:37] chooses a different path. But I I think [10:39] it's a dangerous situation for the [10:41] Republicans. Again, I like JD Vance. I'm [10:43] I'm maybe I'm an outlier in my [10:44] community, but I think he's, you know, I [10:46] like JD Vance. I'm not sure he'd make a [10:48] good president yet in his career for the [10:50] reasons I outlined. And like I just [10:52] said, I believe that by his his [10:55] principled stand to not cancel or not uh [10:59] disavow Tucker, which he'll take, will [11:01] end up being used as a weapon in the [11:05] hands of the Democrats who will pivot [11:06] towards the Jews in Israel and JD Vance [11:10] will lose. That is my dark prediction if [11:12] JD Vance is the candidate. Uh we'll see [11:15] how things play out, but that's my take [11:16] on this situation. Keep watching. Thank [11:19] you for subscribing, liking, sharing, [11:21] all that stuff. The channel's growing [11:23] and uh hopefully it'll keep growing with [11:25] your help. And please make sure to check [11:27] out all the great content that we're [11:28] putting up at Israel 365 News YouTube [11:31] channel. 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