Everyone’s Mad JD Vance Won’t Condemn Tucker. I Think That’s the Strategy.

Written By B.J. Dichter, Posted on November 3, 2026

This article is adapted from B.J. Dichter’s segment on Coffee with BJ, Episode 329. Watch the full segment below.

Everyone is mad that JD Vance won’t condemn Tucker Carlson. I think that’s the strategy.

What happened

At a CBS News town hall on Oct. 17, a father whose two young children survived the March attack at Temple Israel in Michigan asked the vice president to condemn antisemitism on the right, including Tucker Carlson. Vance answered, “I condemn anti-Semitism. I condemn Jew hatred,” but he did not name Carlson, according to Fox News. He did condemn antisemitism in general, then turned to attacking Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. At the Republican Jewish Coalition summit in September, asked about Carlson and others, he answered only about Joe Rogan and Nick Fuentes, JFeed reported.

How did JD respond? He dodged it. He talked, with ambiguity, about people who have all sorts of different opinions that we don’t like. That’s what upsets people. But I’m not done with JD, because I think there’s a reason for this, and it’s what everybody is missing.

It’s all about positioning voting blocs

This will upset people in the other direction. I told you I upset everybody.

There is so much positioning done with strategy in political communications. I’ve tried to tell people who don’t have experience inside politics, and they just dismiss it. No, that’s actually how it works. It’s all about positioning voting blocs.

I think this is his role. JD Vance’s job is to pacify the woke right. That’s what he’s there for. And think about how ridiculous the strategy of attacking him is if that’s the case.

I can’t say conclusively that I know this is the case. But having enough experience in communications, in business and in politics, you see how people are positioned. The Trump administration needs every vote it can get in the midterms on Nov. 3, even from the maniacs, even from the Tucker Carlson people, even from the Candace Owens people. Most of those people will vote for Trump. That’s why there is such a hard push to criticize Trump and pick off enough of that audience to cost Republicans the midterms.

Vance is the countermeasure to that.

Why silence weakens Tucker

You have to understand how people are being positioned in voter blocs, and consider the rhetoric you see online. The more Vance does not condemn Tucker Carlson or the pro-Iran subversives on the woke right, the weaker Tucker Carlson is.

I know that’s difficult to understand. This is why you have to look at things systemically, at multiple groups and how they all interact.

If Vance came out against Tucker and condemned him, what would happen? That gives Tucker Carlson a tabula rasa, a blank slate to be the lone man who can go full force against Trump. Pro-Iran, pro-Islamist, all the Duginist slop and the woke-right nonsense: Tucker Carlson would then own it. That would become his tribe.

But if Vance doesn’t condemn him, that voting bloc thinks, “Yeah, I don’t like what Trump’s doing with Iran, but at least Vance understands it. At least we’ve got people on the inside who agree with me.”

It’s how politics works, folks. It’s all about positioning. If the woke right thinks Vance is their guy, then Tucker Carlson is irrelevant.

Not the enemy people think he is

So I think that’s what people get wrong about JD Vance. I don’t think he’s the enemy people think he is.

Think about it. He’s the vice president. Think strategically. Trump has run large organizations and understands media and communications and how it all works. What a perfect person to pacify the woke right, which has become a headache for the Republican Party. Just have JD go out. “Don’t condemn them, JD. We need their votes. Just give them enough that they’re on board with us, and that’s it.”

I think that’s what’s going on.

B.J. Dichter is a contributor to The National Telegraph and hosts Coffee with BJ. The views in this article are his own.