By Tom Woods
November 27, 2025
The Trump posts about Rand Paul and Thomas Massie just keep coming, including one saying the Republican Party is more unified than ever before with the exception of these terrible dissidents.
J.D. Vance evidently doesn't feel the same, lashing out today at the "beltway GOP":
After four years of house prices doubling (and in some areas, tripling) many young people feel priced out of the American Dream of homeownership. A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren't assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars to literal terrorist groups. An innocent woman was set on fire in Chicago as the mayor resists federal law enforcement resources to bring peace to one of our great cities. The Obamacare insurance system is buckling under its own weight. And the country is $38 trillion in debt.
Our administration is working hard on addressing all of these problems.
But you know what really fires up the beltway GOP? Not any of the above. Instead, the political class is really angry that the Trump administration may finally bring a four-year conflict in Eastern Europe to a close.
I'm not even talking about the substance of their views. Much of what these people have said about the Ukraine war has been proven wrong, but whatever. We can agree to disagree.
But the level of passion over this one issue when your own country has serious problems is bonkers.
It disgusts me. Show some passion for your own country.
We all know that is how Trump himself should be speaking, as opposed to denouncing his friends and praising his enemies, which has been his preference for some time now.
Meanwhile, it has come to light that Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel (honestly, try to imagine a more unserious appointment than that one), met with convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who proceeded to call the U.S. president a "madman."
We have not heard a single word from the President about that, but we have heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene - not Mike Huckabee, who met with a literal and unrepentant spy, but Marjorie Taylor Greene - is a "traitor."
Pollard told the Jerusalem Post in 2021, "Just as certain members of the Trump administration profess an 'America first' doctrine, I wholeheartedly embrace an 'Israel first' doctrine - and I went to jail for that for 30 years."
Pollard has repeatedly indicated that he does not regret what he did, and has gone so far as to urge other young American Jews working in security to consider spying for Israel should they consider it necessary.
And not a single word about Huckabee's meeting with this man?
Now had I written something critical like this six months ago, I would have received a pile of feedback accusing me of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome," etc.
That's long gone now. There's just no defending any of this, and everyone knows it.
I want to like the guy! He has better instincts on a great many things than anyone who's ever been in the White House. But his faults, including his failure to acknowledge loyalty and to humiliate friends while at the same time promoting people who hate his guts (Mark Levin, Lindsey Graham, et al.), are destructive.
