Exceptionally Dim Vox Writer Says Vance Is… You Guessed It

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Everybody say it together: “He’s a danger to our democracy!”

Even after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the left is going heavy on the Trump-is-a-dictator rhetoric. Trucks are parked outside of the Republican National Convention emblazoned with the phrase “DICTATOR ON DAY ONE,” just in case anyone thought Old Joe Biden and his henchmen were really going to ratchet down the hysteria.

On Monday, far-left “journalist” Zack Beauchamp did his part with a lengthy hit piece in Vox, branding Republican vice presidential candidate as a… yeah, that’s right. It seems as if foes of the most authoritarian regime America has ever seen all turn out to be threats to democracy.

Beauchamp is a fairly typical leftist propagandist, always faithfully parroting the party line, cheerfully going after foes of the establishment, and never once having an independent thought. He is, however, even less intelligent than the average leftist. The guy might be up to the intellectual challenge of collecting welfare checks and pulling the lever for Democrats, but anything beyond that is gonna be tough.

Zack Beauchamp is so abjectly unequipped for his job that back in 2014, he forced Vox to issue one of the most ludicrous corrections any publication has ever had to issue: “An earlier version of this post suggested there was a bridge connecting Gaza and the West Bank. Various plans to do this have been floated, but the bridge was never actually built.” Yeah, Zack, but there is a Brooklyn Bridge, and I can get you a very, very good deal on it.

The years did not bring wisdom to poor Zack. He pointed out in 2021 that a surge in antisemitism in the United States coincided with a “recent flare-up in fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas,” which was actually a useful observation, since in some cases, the perpetrators “waved Palestinian flags or shouted pro-Palestinian slogans.” Immediately, however, Beauchamp then retreated into his familiar leftist cocoon, improbably blaming (of course) Donald Trump for this rise in antisemitism: “the anti-Semitic attacks are part of the generalized surge in American anti-Semitism since 2016, which most experts link to the rise of Donald Trump and the alt-right movement.” Sure: supporters of the most pro-Israel president in history always “waved Palestinian flags or shouted pro-Palestinian slogans.”

Now Zack Beauchamp is impressed with JD Vance. No, really. He says that Vance is “friendly, thoughtful, and smart — much smarter than the average politician I’ve interviewed.” Now, when Zack Beauchamp calls you smart, that means you have a good chance of passing second-grade math, but Vance is a Republican and Donald Trump’s running mate, and so of course another shoe was going to drop. Beauchamp goes on to say that Vance’s “worldview is fundamentally incompatible with the basic principles of American democracy.”

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