An old Jewish joke tells of a Romanian peasant trying to protect himself from a nocturnal visit by a vampire. Following the traditional method, the peasant holds up a cross as the grim visitor flies toward him. The vampire looks at the frightened peasant and utters the Yiddish phrase “vet gunichts helfen,” meaning “nothing will help.” The vampire, being Jewish, obviously didn’t respond to the Christian symbol.
This joke came to mind as I read the well-intentioned commentary by Jesse Arm, a Manhattan Institute employee, about how the Republican Party can drive the left backward by repackaging the cultural war. If we can succeed in presenting “today’s cultural conservatism” in an appealing way, then we can show that it’s not JD Vance but Tampon Tim Walz
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