In what has become a regular ritual for him, Vice President J.D. Vance is again dismissing concerns about antisemitism in the Republican Party and the MAGA movement, this time in an interview with NBC News :

“Do I think that the Republican Party is substantially more antisemitic than it was 10 or 15 years ago? Absolutely not,” Vance said. “In any bunch of apples, you have bad people. But my attitude on this is we should be firm in saying antisemitism and racism is wrong … I think it’s kind of slanderous to say that the Republican Party, the conservative movement, is extremely antisemitic.”

He is obviously choosing his words carefully, but the message is pretty clear: “Slandering” Republicans with warnings about rising antisemitism is a bigger problem than GOP antisemitism itself, so pe

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