Fox News reported that Trump had gone further in an interview, saying he had told Iranian officials if they closed the strait, “you won’t have a country”.
“You won’t even make it back to your f---ing country ... we’ll take over the rest of the country,” he said, according to Fox News. “We may take over the strait, if we have to. I’ll blow the shit out of them.”
But, of course, a host of greedy, morally bankrupt MAGA/Right wing broadcasters will spin this as reasonable intervention in a negotiation process.
And what a weak, weak, interview Ross Douthat held with JD Vance last week.
The only thing of interest from it was Douthat acknowledging that he was the one talking to Vance in a pub when a wine glass popped off a shelf (in poltergeist-like fashion) and smashed to the floor while they were talking Catholicism.
But as for the rest of the content, Douthat pushed back on Vance with all the strength of a wet tissue when talking about the (obvious) immorality of the Trump administration. As someone in comments said:
What a softball, creampuff, servile interview.
Several times, Douthat led the conversation to points where he could have easily, quite naturally, have asked Vance tough (or even mildly awkward) questions. Every single time, he led the conversation back to safe, anodyne, uncontroversial, near-irrelevant territory. You'd hardly know they were talking about a war, its appalling cost and unintended consequences, at all.
Gee, you'd think they (or their assistants) agreed beforehand what was and wasn't politically "proper" to talk about. This is far from the first time Douthat has struck me as a diligent stenographer and publicist for MAGA Republicans. He is quite obvious in his rhetorical intentions here.
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