{"id":2638383,"date":"2026-07-31T17:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-burning-hatred-from-neocons-is-good-for-j-d-vance-in-2028\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:22:30","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-burning-hatred-from-neocons-is-good-for-j-d-vance-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-burning-hatred-from-neocons-is-good-for-j-d-vance-in-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burning Hatred From Neocons Is Good For J.D. Vance In 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-burning-hatred-from-neocons-is-good-for-j-d-vance-in-2028%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2638383&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Trump has not endorsed J.D. Vance for the 2028 Republican nomination, but Vance faces strong criticism from prominent critics like Bret Stephens and Marc Thiessen. Stephens, a longtime conservative who previously voted for Kamala Harris, vehemently denounced Vance in The new York Times, calling him &#8220;the worst person ever to hold the office,&#8221; highlighting a stark partisan opposition.Thiessen, a former George W. Bush speechwriter and current Washington post contributor, launched a coordinated attack on Vance, criticizing his stance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of ... Women Elected to Congress\">foreign policy<\/a> and the Iran conflict. Thiessen advocates for a severe military campaign against Iran, detailing a plan to decimate Iran\u2019s leadership, military, and economy, and suggesting ongoing covert support to Iranian rebels-a plan he claims could be completed in weeks, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-urges-peace-amid-fighting-in-chad-east-africa\/\" title=\"State Dept. urges peace amid fighting in Chad, East Africa\">ongoing conflicts<\/a> and realities on the ground. Though, the situation on the Iran front shows that despite claims of military success, Iran continues attacks, and key waterways like the Strait of Hormuz remain hazardous. Stephens and Thiessen,identified as Israel-aligned neocons,oppose Vance because he does not align with their aggressive foreign policy visions,illustrating their efforts to weaken his support and influence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump hasn\u2019t yet endorsed J.D. Vance for the 2028 Republican nomination, but the vice president got the next best thing: a rebuke from Bret Stephens and Marc Thiessen \u2014\u00a0in the same month!<\/p>\n<p>In a piece of content for The New York Times last week, Stephens, who once called himself a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/18\/nyts-bret-stephens-hoping-to-stay-relevant-is-ready-to-leave-never-trump-its-too-late\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/18\/nyts-bret-stephens-hoping-to-stay-relevant-is-ready-to-leave-never-trump-its-too-late\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cBiden conservative\u201d<\/a> and who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, confidently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/21\/opinion\/jd-vance-vice-president.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/21\/opinion\/jd-vance-vice-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> Vance \u201cby far the worst person ever to hold the office.\u201d Mind you, Stephens has called himself a conservative for decades, and yet <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/21\/losing-is-not-winning-no-matter-what-the-medias-favorite-conservatives-keep-saying\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/21\/losing-is-not-winning-no-matter-what-the-medias-favorite-conservatives-keep-saying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as far back as 2012<\/a> was rooting against Republicans in every nationwide election, so there isn\u2019t much worth considering here other than recognizing such a full-throated denunciation by Bret <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/08\/28\/755177135\/the-internet-saga-that-followed-a-tweet-comparing-bedbugs-and-a-columnist\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/08\/28\/755177135\/the-internet-saga-that-followed-a-tweet-comparing-bedbugs-and-a-columnist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cBed Bug\u201d<\/a> Stephens can only help whoever is on the receiving end.<\/p>\n<p>Worth slightly more attention is what Thiessen wrote this week in The Washington Post. Recall that Thiessen is the Post content creator and former George W. Bush speechwriter whom Trump, for inexplicable reasons that may be explained in the future, has reportedly been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/05\/03\/2026\/how-the-fox-news-hawks-got-back-in-trumps-good-graces?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/05\/03\/2026\/how-the-fox-news-hawks-got-back-in-trumps-good-graces?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reading and consulting privately<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">foreign affairs<\/a>. Thiessen took an opportunity on Thursday to continue the very obviously coordinated attack on Vance planned by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/21\/lazy-senate-republicans-attack-j-d-vance-to-distract-from-their-own-failure\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/21\/lazy-senate-republicans-attack-j-d-vance-to-distract-from-their-own-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a slimy mix<\/a> of neocons, lazy Republicans, and Israel Firsters. <\/p>\n<p>Evaluating the Iran war, which has grown increasingly unpopular, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-approval-iran-war-poll-republicans-election-55e9c80afec521d87f131393a59674c0?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-approval-iran-war-poll-republicans-election-55e9c80afec521d87f131393a59674c0?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even among Republicans<\/a>, Thiessen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/07\/30\/donald-trump-should-take-iran-war-advice-those-who-have-delivered\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg1Mzg0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NzY2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODUzODQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjkxNzhiYWZkLWZkNDgtNGNjOS1hODE5LTAwM2Q2ZjM4Y2IwYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI2LzA3LzMwL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1zaG91bGQtdGFrZS1pcmFuLXdhci1hZHZpY2UtdGhvc2Utd2hvLWhhdmUtZGVsaXZlcmVkLyJ9.x1xk8_9I4GrQPPpDvXybOT6FnlErL_nRXxdElICtJCQ\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/07\/30\/donald-trump-should-take-iran-war-advice-those-who-have-delivered\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg1Mzg0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NzY2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODUzODQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjkxNzhiYWZkLWZkNDgtNGNjOS1hODE5LTAwM2Q2ZjM4Y2IwYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI2LzA3LzMwL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1zaG91bGQtdGFrZS1pcmFuLXdhci1hZHZpY2UtdGhvc2Utd2hvLWhhdmUtZGVsaXZlcmVkLyJ9.x1xk8_9I4GrQPPpDvXybOT6FnlErL_nRXxdElICtJCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cPerhaps it\u2019s time for the president to take the advice of those who have delivered him success in Iran \u2014 not those like Vance who have failed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen blames the failures in Iran not on what certainly look like short-sighted decisions by the commander in chief, but on Vance, whose primary responsibility in the conflict has been negotiating its end with Iran\u2019s leaders. That\u2019s at least honest. But let\u2019s look at what Thiessen says a real victory, without any negotiation, would look like.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that the war\u2019s objectives are: \u201celiminate remaining [Iranian] leadership figures; further entomb Iran\u2019s nuclear sites; take out Iran\u2019s remaining ballistic missile sites; destroy the economic and energy infrastructure that provides the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a financial lifeline, as well as key highways, railroads, airports and seaports by which the regime gets financial assistance from bordering countries; and demolish Iran\u2019s remaining defense industrial base so it cannot rebuild its destroyed capabilities.\u201d Then, with presumably a straight face, Thiessen said, \u201cThat\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, is that all?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, not really. Thiessen, perhaps to his credit, didn\u2019t even pretend to hide the ball. Though having concluded, \u201cThat\u2019s it\u201d \u2014\u00a0just the complete decimation of a global energy supplier\u2019s entire transportation infrastructure and economy \u2014 Thiessen went on to do the equivalent of, <em>But wait! There\u2019s more!<\/em> He then said the U.S. would simply have to commit to keeping American troops just off the shore of Iran in perpetuity and \u201cprovide covert support\u201d to Iranian rebels, in hopes that they might fight their own government. You know, just like they are now! Wait, that\u2019s not actually happening, is it? Oh well!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce these targets have been struck,\u201d wrote Thiessen, \u201cthe president should announce an end to major combat, keep the blockade in place, open the Strait of Hormuz and then provide covert support to the Iranian people to help them undermine and eventually bring down the regime. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, nearly half a year into this war, Thiessen said all of that would only take a \u201cfew weeks.\u201d Well, why didn\u2019t you say so?!<\/p>\n<p>Marc, hold my hand when I tell you this: The president has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-can-counter-medias-iran-coverage-by-being-honest-about-the-war\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/11\/trump-can-counter-medias-iran-coverage-by-being-honest-about-the-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already announced<\/a> an end to major combat and said the Hormuz Strait is opening. Before saying the opposite. Multiple times. The problem is that, even though Thiessen in his piece credits the president for \u201cdecimating its ballistic missile capability\u201d and \u201cannihilating its conventional military forces,\u201d Iran has managed to continue attacking U.S. targets and killing Americans. And whatever claims that the Strait is \u201copen,\u201d ship crews are still terrified of passing through it. And it\u2019s not because of Jaws.<\/p>\n<p>Bret Stephens and Marc Thiessen are Israel First neocons who care about their foreign allegiances and preferences for war. The public record, to date, is that J.D. Vance is not in sync with that crowd. That\u2019s why they hate him. It\u2019s why they\u2019re faulting him for America\u2019s deteriorating standing in this war. They want him destroyed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bret Stephens and Thiessen attack Vance, oppose Iran war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2638384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JD-Vance.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[35138,57534,33017],"class_list":["post-2638383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-j-d-vance","tag-neocons-2","tag-political-analysis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JD-Vance.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638390,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638383\/revisions\/2638390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}