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Tucker Carlson has endorsed J.D. Vance and now he s running against Donald Trump for the 2020 Democratic nomination. What does this mean for the future of the conservative movement? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

00:00:00.000 So Carlson can create something that's going to pull at 1%, but then it's going to pull at 1%, but then they'll have some ceremony where he will endorse J.D. Vance.

00:00:16.280 And so there's no real contradiction between these things.

00:00:19.200 There was that video last week or the week before where Tucker was like, I, as a true Christian, could never support Donald Trump.

00:00:26.520 and then literally the next day he's like well jd vance i could get behind him i could get by

00:00:31.660 it's like you're talking about the vice president here and so what i think he's going to try to do

00:00:37.240 is recreate the dynamic of trump 2024 but with vance and i don't think any of this works because

00:00:46.500 Trump. Trump functions as a naysaying, doomsaying outsider. That's where Trumpism really works.

00:00:59.400 When Trump goes up on stage in 2016, this is the American dream is dead. That's when he's

00:01:06.120 at his most powerful. He is this wild, out of left field, crazy candidate, the chaos candidate, 0.96

00:01:15.480 the the the one who could never win the establishment hates blah blah blah we've

00:01:20.920 listened to the michael moore monologue on this a hundred times that's where trump is at his most

00:01:26.560 powerful is when he acts like that is this just wholesale attack on the status quo and what are

00:01:36.520 his policies we don't know but we can just sort of imagine them it's like the dave smith candidate

00:01:42.580 of like he's going to audit the fed and like you know he's going to free ross ulbricht and uh he's

00:01:49.540 you know no more wars ever you know take all that money that we're spending on israel and use it on

00:01:55.500 schools or right you know it's just this like catch all big tent

00:02:00.280 anti-establishment curmudgeon party basically the podcast bro sphere and what he's going to do

00:02:12.120 is try to make vance the vehicle for this which i just don't think works and it's going to be the

00:02:19.880 you know there's just too many wars going on ukraine israel we we just need one true you know 0.98

00:02:27.440 anti-war voice and that is jd vance well it's just he's the fucking vice president 0.98

00:02:32.940 the other problem with jd vance is that he is a midwit but he's almost too articulate for his own 0.99

00:02:40.740 good so the good thing about Trump one of his great strengths is that he engages in this rambling 0.96

00:02:48.440 bombastic bullshitty nonsense on stage for hours on end and because none of it means anything

00:02:59.480 you can just sort of project onto Trump whatever the hell you want him to be basically not so with 0.80

00:03:07.860 JD Vance because JD Vance again

00:03:10.100 it's a little too

00:03:11.300 articulate for

00:03:13.980 his own good and he's going

00:03:16.060 to talk about these policies

00:03:17.760 now he's going to do it in a way that's

00:03:20.320 in many ways

00:03:22.040 nonsensical or in bad faith

00:03:24.060 or whatever but he's going to

00:03:25.960 try to be like the guy who

00:03:27.980 spells it out

00:03:28.980 and so it just ruins it

00:03:31.760 it doesn't work with Vance

00:03:34.140 and I haven't even got into

00:03:35.920 the aspect of charisma

00:03:37.980 which Vance does not

00:03:39.920 have he has negative aura

00:03:41.600 so this is

00:03:44.360 Tucker's

00:03:46.120 plan basically

00:03:47.500 is that he's gonna

00:03:49.800 create some curmudgeon

00:03:51.920 anti-war

00:03:53.500 vaguely populist American

00:03:55.940 dream bring it back party

00:03:57.680 and he'll end up just

00:03:59.960 trying to hitch his wagon to Vance

00:04:01.880 and I hope all of this 1.00

00:04:04.060 shit loses 1.00

RadixJournal - July 03, 2026

Skywalkers

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