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![Yoram Hazony, philosopher-king of the Woke Right—a marginal movement of cranks, bigots, and meatheads that wants to roll back the Enlightenment to the sweeter, gentler, more religious Middle Ages, and has probably already doomed the Republicans in 2028—came to the Combatting Antisemitism Conference this week to recite a humble apology. “James Lindsay was right. Obviously, in retrospect, trying to create a nationalist movement on the American right was inevitably going to descend into a mess of white nationalism and Jew-hate. Trying to undo the universalism and rationalism embedded in the American Constitution, in favour of religion and ‘tradition,’ risks everything that made America by far the greatest, freest, wealthiest nation the world has ever seen, and the safest place for Jews in their 2,600 years of exile. I was blinded by ego. It is now time to call out all the white nationalists and bigots on the right, overt and covert—the ones who attack Jews openly, but most of all those who run interference for them and provide them succour. If we on the right don’t defeat these wicked clowns, the right will be defeated by the far-left. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” But that is not what he said. Instead, in an angry and accusatory tone, he upbraided the audience for their failure to prove that Tucker Carlson was actually an antisemite. Why, he demanded, had the “Antisemitism Industrial Complex” not sent him packaged, edited dossiers of evidence for his consideration? “Incredible incompetence,” Hazony declared—this from a man who had nothing at all to say about his very competent friend Kevin Roberts, who managed to turn the Heritage Foundation from the core of conservative thought into a joke by repurposing its mission to support arch Jew-hater Tucker Carlson. Hazony lambasted the assembled activists and philanthropists, telling them what a terrible mistake they were making by not allying with “nationalists”—presumably people he believes are his people. He drew a distinction between the “alt-right,” whom he concedes are antisemites, and the “liberal Republicans” like Ted Cruz, who he says do not need courting because they are already pro-Jewish. The core bulk of the Republican coalition—the evangelicals—was simply magicked away by Hazony’s novel categories, which oh-so-conveniently allow him to play both the moderating force and the good cop to whom Jews should turn if they want to make a difference. It is a total fantasy. But Hazony has form here: he routinely defines categories tendentiously to shoehorn his arguments into reality. He once wrote a book in which, inter alia, he argued that the Third Reich wasn’t really nationalist at all. Why, oh why, won’t Jews just be friends with the “nationalists”? If only Jews could be persuaded to get on board with the post-liberal project—the true future of the Republican Party for the next generation, Hazony promises us. Never mind that this project amounts to unraveling the Constitution and imposing a national religion, like in lovely old Europe, from which the American colonists fled due to—well—religious persecution. Hazony claims these “nationalists” make up 65% of the Republican base, when in reality you could probably barely fill a room with people who truly believe in, understand, or want his kooky, impractical, and undesirable theories. Even Kevin Roberts likely doesn’t understand the plan—he’s more of a sports fan, after all. Who are these “nationalist” senators and congressmen? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Is this supposed legion Jack Posobiec’s Turning Point crowd? So who, exactly? Hazony perhaps hopes it is Vance—Tucker’s mentee and friend. Does he really believe that a man willing to throw his own wife and children under the bus before Nick Fuentes will advance his ideas? It’s all so silly. The good news is that if Vance does get nominated, he will lose—and in no small part because of his association with “nationalists,” which will be kryptonite to the median American voter. The Woke Right and the Woke Left share many of the same tactics—like infiltrating institutions and corrupting them—and many of the same outcomes, including hatred of existing power structures and, accidentally, Jews. They arrive there from the same starting point: the belief that the Enlightenment, and its most powerful product, the American Constitution, binds their hands and therefore must be unravelled to give them freer rein. Every Jew with a brain and the slightest smidgen of humility understands why this would be disastrous—not just for Jews, but for the American people, who are now celebrating 250 years of the greatest nation that has ever existed, a nation built on belief in—and willingness to die for—ideas, not merely kin, clan, and nation. Hazony saved his harshest words for his fellow right-wing Jews, whose actions he called a disgrace, accusing them of “misbehaving.” The insane Jew-hate on the right is mere “agitprop,” insufficiently condemned by his own “nationalist” allies only because Jews and “liberals” have failed to make their case—or because Jews are too shrill in their complaints: “And when they [the 'nationalists'] don’t [condemn right-wing Jew-haters], this drives liberal Republicans, both Jews and non-Jews, to start misbehaving. They lash out at nationalists, accusing them of antisemitism or of protecting antisemites. It’s a disgrace. If the goal is to persuade Trump’s nationalists to build an alliance with Jews on these and other issues, it’s also counterproductive.” In short, Hazony realised that Trump was as good as it was ever going to get on the right—but it wasn’t right enough for him. So he needed to push further, and that meant building a new coalition: evangelicals out, “nationalism” in. It is a hopeless idea—a mere wrecking ball that will come swinging in 2028. But the fact that he now seeks to browbeat the Jewish right into an alliance with nationalists under a post-liberal, pre-Enlightenment banner is honestly reprehensible. It is a total and ongoing failure, hence the rage and condescension. It is all so pitiable.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2016880045776638146/amplify_video_thumb/2016878984676716544/img/l0-nsq_Hr2azY_xG.jpg)
