"(Alex Wroblewski/Pool via AP) When Vice President JD Vance called outrage over a leaked Young Republicans chat filled with racist slurs pearl clutching, he wasn't minimizing hate speechhe was codifying the MAGA Right's new moral standard: decency is weakness, and principle is a con. The leaked chatthousands of pages of bigotry masquerading as irony published by Politicowas indefensible. And yet Vance's reflex was to deflect, pointing to a Democratic rival's years-old violent and disqualifying text messages as if whataboutism were wisdom."
"Vance posted on X that Jones's comments were far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and dismissed the Young Republicans' messages as nothing more than a college group chat. This was swiftly derided for what it was: gross partisan bullshit that prioritized scoring political points over a principled position. Because a politician on the other team said something indefensible, I shall refuse to condemn something indefensible said by my team, wrote Jonah Goldberg, translating the vice president's words accurately,"
"That, Goldberg argued, is moral cowardice. It's tribalism dressed up as principle. And it's fast becoming the ruling ethic of the post-Trump right: the belief that politics isn't about what's right, but who wins. Translation: Because a politician for the other team said something indefensible, I shall refuse to criticize something else indefensible said by my team is exactly the kind moral cowardice and sophistry I've come to expect from our Vice President."
A leaked Young Republicans chat contained thousands of pages of racist, bigoted messages disguised as irony. Vice President JD Vance downplayed the outrage by framing the chat as a college group exchange and deflected attention toward a Democratic rival's past texts. Jonah Goldberg characterized that defense as moral cowardice and tribalism posing as principle. The piece describes a political ethic in which decency is recast as weakness, empathy as frailty, and loyalty to the tribe replaces concern for right and wrong. The resulting posture prioritizes victory and partisan scoring over consistent moral standards.
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