JD Vance Picks a Side

At long last, the battle over the moral trajectory of the American right is engaged.

The fusillade that inaugurated a new phase of this ongoing “civil war” among conservative personalities was delivered by Ben Shapiro. “The conservative movement is in serious danger,” he told the attendees of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. It is beset by “charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.”