Honest debate within the political Right requires the populist critics of traditional conservatism and free markets to stop hiding behind vague “common good” terminology and state in plain English what they want the government to do.
If “common good” economic policy means lower taxes and less regulation, I’m for it. If it means higher taxes and heavy regulation, I’m against it.
Unfortunately, leading populist think tankers and politicians have made it clear they want to raise taxes on American households.
Oren Cass, the founder and “Chief Economist” of American Compass, recently laid out a <a href="https://atr.org/oren-cass-calls-for-trillions-in-new-tax-increases/">$5 trillion laundry list</a> of tax increases on individuals and businesses, including a payroll tax hike on all Americans earning over $185,000.
Cass, whose organization runs the <a href="https://americancompass.org/announcing-the-common-good-economics-grant-program/">Common Good Economics</a> grant program, is an influential voice in populist circles. American Compass was <a href="https://www.commonplace.org/about">dubbed</a> “the cutting edge of populist economic and cultural thinking” by Steve Bannon. Vice President JD Vance referred to Cass as “a friend,” and a “very fascinating guy” during his recent <a href="https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/the-joe-rogan-experience/2526-jd-vance">interview</a> on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
During an appearance on the “<a href="https://ricochet.com/podcast/conservative-crossroads-with-henry-olsen/should-conservatives-raise-taxes/">Conservative Crossroads</a>” podcast released last week, Cass backed new tax increases and the reversal of key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), President Trump’s signature legislative achievement.
Specifically, Cass called to “take the top couple of [individual] rates back up to where they were before TCJA,” and to hike “the corporate rate back up to 25 percent.”
Raising the top income tax rate to the pre-Trump level of 39.6% was Kamala Harris’s and Joe Biden’s campaign position. Cass thought they didn’t go far enough and would raise the “top couple of rates.” This is a tax hike on people who make things – the small and mid-sized businesses that file their taxes on the individual side of the tax code and employ over 60% of the nation’s workforce. This includes the manufacturers, welders, builders, metalworkers, contractors, etc., who, in 2025, wrote a <a href="https://atr.org/90-manufacturing-machinist-builders-and-contractors-groups-oppose-any-effort-to-increase-tax-rates/">letter</a> to Republican lawmakers urging them to oppose “any effort to increase income tax rates.” The Republicans listened and made the Trump individual rates permanent law.
Cass’s proposed corporate rate hike is a tax increase on American workers. The corporate income tax is how Democrats hide the ball on who pays taxes. According to the <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/labor-bears-corporate-tax/">Tax Foundation</a>, workers bear an estimated 70% of the corporate income tax in the form of lower wages. The Cass plan would also hamstring American competition with China, imposing a combined federal-state tax rate of 29%, higher than China’s conventional 25% rate and its preferred 15% corporate tax rate on companies deemed “high and new technology enterprises.”
After calling to reverse the Trump tax cuts, Cass went on to endorse Elizabeth Warren’s $800 billion financial transaction tax, a key pillar of her anti-Wall Street <a href="https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-the-stranglehold-of-health-care-costs-on-american-families-bf8286b13086">tax plan</a> during her failed presidential campaign.
Cass topped off his tax hike wish list by calling to uncap the Social Security payroll tax, currently capped at roughly $185,000, raising taxes on millions of taxpayers.
Alarmingly, at least one Republican Senator has already followed Cass’s advice to hike payroll taxes.
In June, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), a self-styled <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2024/02/24/ohio-senate-bernie-moreno">populist Republican</a>, joined Elizabeth Warren in a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/opinion/moreno-warren-social-security.html">op-ed</a> announcing they would soon be introducing legislation to fully eliminate the payroll tax cap, which they themselves label a $3 trillion tax increase.
Eliminating the payroll tax cap would <a href="https://atr.org/bernie-moreno-not-sanders-joins-elizabeth-warren-to-impose-56-percent-tax-rate-on-ohio-small-businesses/">impose</a> a 56% combined top rate on small and midsize businesses in Ohio. It would shrink the U.S. economy by 1.2% and kill 1.3 million jobs.
The Moreno-Warren plan faced widespread <a href="https://atr.org/no-conservative-support-for-bernie-morenos-giant-tax-increase/">backlash</a> from conservatives, including opposition from the Heritage Foundation, Club for Growth, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and even Moreno’s fellow Republican Senator from Ohio, John Husted, who is currently running to keep his seat.
Even Hillary Clinton previously <a href="https://x.com/johnkartch/status/2069470615866896527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2069470615866896527%7Ctwgr%5E32e32a9355a495af121e09088fabc174aa75d144%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fatr.org%2Fbernie-moreno-not-sanders-joins-elizabeth-warren-to-impose-56-percent-tax-rate-on-ohio-small-businesses%2F">opposed</a> lifting the payroll tax cap, pointing out that it would raise taxes on “police officers, firefighters and the like.” Cass, however, <a href="https://www.commonplace.org/p/cutting-bait-on-a-bad-war">endorsed</a> the Moreno payroll tax hike specifically for pushing Republicans “toward an approach that puts revenue on the table.”
Facing stiff conservative opposition, six weeks have now gone by without Moreno introducing an actual bill. Moreno might have let Cass walk him into traffic by raising taxes, but other Republicans and conservatives should learn from this mistake and stay far away.
Raising taxes is a betrayal of core conservative principles. No one on the Right should endorse the idea that the government is entitled to 50% of any dollar any American earns. You can&#8217;t slap a &#8220;common good&#8221; label on the same policies Elizabeth Warren has pushed since arriving in the Senate and call it conservative.
Across the country, Republicans are campaigning this cycle on the Trump tax cuts. At the <a href="https://atr.org/taxmap/">state level</a>, 12 Republican-run states cut income taxes last year, and 26 states have passed legislation enacting either a zero or flat income tax rate. <a href="https://thehill.com/business/5826304-americans-poll-taxes-high/">Six in 10 Americans</a> say they pay too much in taxes and only 3% say they pay too little.
It seems the “populist” Right still has some work to do selling their tax hikes to the public. They can count me out.
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Mike Palicz is the Vice President of Federal Affairs at Americans for Tax Reform.

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After 11 frustrating years of losing intramural conservative debates, the pre-MAGA, Never-Trump Washington Right has finally found an opponent worthy of its intellectual firepower: imaginary congressional staff assistants.
That’s the cringey truth behind Politico Magazine’s recent &#8220;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/01/heritage-foundation-young-republicans-groypers-hiring-01006937">exposé</a>&#8220;: “GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem.” Nothing in the article’s 2,300 words remotely supports the headline’s assertion, let alone the bizarre anti-JD Vance smear campaign orchestrated in its wake.
The real story here isn’t about young conservatives at all, but the vindictiveness of self-important policy wonks they no longer listen to.
For the 99% of Americans blessedly ignorant of the term, “groyper” refers to the antisemitic, misogynistic, white-identitarian followers of Gen-Z internet performance artist Nick Fuentes. The corporate media and the establishment Right have desperately tried to link the odious Fuentes to Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. But both sides refuse to cooperate.
Fuentes hates Trump for being too friendly to Israel. He hates Vance because his wife Usha is of Indian descent and his children are biracial. The feeling is mutual. Trump and Vance have both publicly rejected antisemitism. Vance has <a href="https://unherd.com/2025/12/full-transcript-jd-vance-on-american-identity/?edition=us">gone further</a>, telling off Fuentes directly and declaring that antisemitism and ethnic hatred have no place in the conservative movement.
As someone who works with congressional and administration staff every week, I know firsthand that the mutual disdain between MAGA patriots and groyper losers is reflected in hiring decisions on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. (The only groyper I have ever encountered couldn’t get a job in Donald Trump’s Washington.) Even the article that ignited last week’s moral panic acknowledged that the “true scale” of the groyper problem could be “negligible.”
So where did Politico get the idea that “the GOP’s young D.C. professional class” is crawling with “groypers”? According to the article, from four sources: an “anonymous conservative,” an anonymous “senior GOP congressional staffer,” a college professor with no apparent connection to Capitol Hill or the Trump administration, and a former Heritage Foundation scholar angry that the famously pro-life institution wants their interns to be pro-life. If that seems thin evidence to smear an entire generation of honest, idealistic conservative professionals as bigots, wait ’til you see how they try to square the circle.
Among Politico’s “GOP Staffers” who allege this “groyper problem,” you see, a “groyper” doesn’t have to be an actual antisemitic, white nationalist Fuentesite freak. No, the term “is also used as a catch-all term of abuse for young, anti-establishment” conservatives. To Washington’s Establishment and some on the libertarian Right, dissatisfaction with Republican elites’ 21st-century economic, foreign, and domestic policy failures — a dissatisfaction shared by <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/53800-distrust-elites-experts-establishment-widespread-among-americans-december-26-29-2025-economist-yougov-poll">roughly 90%</a> of the American people — makes someone a racist, antisemitic monster.
There is no polite rebuttal to this disgraceful rhetorical gambit other than to say: thank God Donald Trump kicked these people to the curb.
Of course, that’s what this is really about.
Within hours of the Politico article’s publication, social media trolls were tying the GOP’s phantom “groyper problem” to Vice President Vance, whom they hate almost as much as real groypers do. Trump’s victory and Vance’s ascendance have fundamentally changed the Right over the last decade. One of those changes has been the marginalization of once-influential policy “experts.”
The Groyper Gambit is an attempt by the old corporate-globalist-neoconservative GOP to win back the party they fumbled — not by persuading dissenters but by declaring dissent to be illegitimate.
James Lindsay, once-feted anti-woke academic, called Vance-aligned conservatives &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/2083940423429496834?s=20">little sh*ts</a>&#8221; and blamed a phantom “Groyper infestation of D.C.” <a href="https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/2083935970324348960">on Vance directly</a>. Phil Magness of the libertarian Independent Institute accused a conservative law student of being &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/rachelbovard/status/2082992685204344904?s=20">groyper curious</a>&#8221; because he was Catholic and a Vance supporter.
This is the tell. Critics of JD Vance would rather traffic in outrageous labels — “groyper,” “socialist,” “authoritarian” — than debate the underlying issues, because those issues are broadly supported and politically potent. Arguing against them on the merits is a losing proposition. Pathologizing the people who hold them is easier.
Robust policy and political disagreement within the Right is fine and to be expected. Turning differences of degree into existential accusations, or dismissing ideas like stronger antitrust enforcement as “socialism,” is absurd and deliberate. You can dislike and disagree with JD Vance all you want. Suggesting he is a groyper is simply a lie – and a cowardly one, at that.
The crux of the controversy is that Vance’s pro-family, “common good” conservatism and vital-interest-oriented foreign policy are popular. They are shared, in one form or another, by every young national star in the GOP, from Secretary of State <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vtkUnR_gs">Marco Rubio</a> to Florida Governor <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHOKm2Lmfs">Ron DeSantis</a>. They are also enthusiastically supported by almost every young Republican staffer in Washington.
And with good reason. Patriotic young conservatives who came of age in the Trump Era spent 18 years in schools run by woke-era DEI Marxists. They know the New Left hates America as much as groypers hate Vance. They came to Washington, D.C. to save the country and to build a new Republican Party that understands the stakes of the fight, and how to win it.
Yes, conservative staffers today are different. They know the old GOP dispensation’s ideas, leaders, and policy wonks had their chance, failed, and are not up to the task ahead.
The young professionals I work with every day are decent, principled, patriotic public servants. They make me optimistic about the future of the Right — never more so than when contrasted with the gutter behavior of the bitter “grownups” who smear them for clicks.
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Rachel Bovard is Vice President of Programs at Conservative Partnership Institute.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday downplayed a report suggesting he had already settled on Vice President JD Vance as his preferred successor to carry his MAGA movement forward. 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/06/trump-tells-donors-we-need-elect-jd-vp-weighs-his-future/">The Washington Post</a> reported Thursday that Trump has privately encouraged donors to support Vance&#8217;s future presidential ambitions, citing anonymous sources familiar with the conversations. 
“At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” Trump reportedly told donors during an Oval Office meeting two weeks ago, according to the report. 
The outlet also cited six additional “Trumpworld advisors” who anonymously said they did not believe a Vance endorsement was a done deal.
“Anyone assuming it’s a lock is just getting way ahead of themselves, or just doesn’t know the president very well,” one Trump administration official told The Post. 
Hours later in the Oval Office, The Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese posed the question to Trump directly. 
“No. I heard about it a little while ago. I think he&#8217;s great,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/2085462419598614610?s=20">said</a> of Vance. “We&#8217;re way too early to even be thinking about that.”  
The Post reported that Trump has grown increasingly impressed with Vance&#8217;s performance as vice president, highlighting his role in brokering the Iran ceasefire that later collapsed, leading a federal task force targeting fraud, and entering the media lion&#8217;s den to promote his book and Catholic conversion.
Vance has not publicly confirmed whether he plans to run for president. Some early polling suggests Vance is the frontrunner, though other potential contenders have gained ground.
After the vice president, Secretary of State Marco Rubio polls the strongest among Republican primary voters, according to the most recent survey data.  A New Hampshire poll released in July showed support for Vance slipping significantly in the Granite State. About 36% of likely GOP primary voters backed Vance, down sharply from 53% in February. Rubio appeared to capitalize on the shift, more than tripling his support from 7% to 26%, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-2028-poll-just-shook-up-both-parties">The Daily Wire reported. </a>
While Vance&#8217;s support has softened in some early-state polling, he continues to lead nationally. The <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2028/national">RealClearPolitics </a>polling average still shows Vance with a commanding 18.2-point national lead over a hypothetical field of Republican rivals, including Rubio, Donald Trump Jr., Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Speculation about Trump&#8217;s eventual endorsement has also been fueled by divisions within the conservative movement over U.S. policy toward Iran. In a Wednesday <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/2085148515593064844?s=20">interview</a> with FOX News, Vance denied any daylight with the president over foreign policy. 
“The president runs this administration. He is the very top of the administration. He makes orders. We, of course, have debates and conversations about what exactly we should do. But when the president of the United States makes a decision, we are unified in this administration in carrying out that mission,” Vance said.

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WASHINGTON — The White House is launching a website dedicated to exposing the fraud that Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s task force has uncovered, The Daily Wire can first report.
The new site, &#8220;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fraud/">The Fraud Ledger</a>,&#8221; will highlight the successes of the &#8220;Task Force to Eliminate Fraud,&#8221; specifically focusing on the three values that the task force solicited from each partner agency: fraud uncovered, fraud stopped, and fraud enforcement.
It is designed to be a &#8220;public record of the fraud, waste, and corruption identified&#8221; by the task force since January 2025.
“President Trump is waging an all-out war on fraud, shutting down billions of dollars in taxpayer theft,&#8221; White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Democrats have refused to stop this epidemic of fraud. The Trump Administration is holding these criminals accountable and ensuring key federal programs remain viable for the Americans they were meant to support.”
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&#8220;Fraud uncovered&#8221; refers to estimates of total fraud that the agencies uncovered, using data and statistical methods, &#8220;fraud stopped&#8221; refers real dollars per year that were not spent due to the administration&#8217;s actions, and &#8220;fraud enforcement&#8221; refers to the money related to indictments, settlements, or civil monetary penalties.
Since January 2025, the task force has uncovered $229.9 billion, according to the website. The task force has stopped $56.4 billion in annual fraud, and enforced $55.5 billion in fraud through indictments and settlements.
Medicaid fraud deferrals top the list of the task force&#8217;s highest impact anti-fraud actions — according to the new website, the Center for Medicaid Services deferred over $2 billion from California and $500 million from Minnesota.
The Small Business Administration had the most total estimated fraud uncovered, coming in at a whopping $122.9 billion. Health and Human Services followed closely with $96.2 billion in uncovered fraud, and the Department of Labor came next at $7 billion.
The move comes on the heels of Vance&#8217;s latest fraud announcements, made Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Vance shared the latest fraud numbers that his team had uncovered since the task force launched, and he called on Congress to help combat fraud by codifying anti-fraud measures into law.
“The Vice President is taking a whole of government approach to fighting fraud,&#8221; a spokesman for the vice president shared. &#8220;That includes working with Congress to codify common sense anti-fraud measures to ensure that fraudsters and people who take advantage of the American people’s generosity are brought to justice for future generations, not just under the Trump Administration.”

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Once the radical vanguard of an ascendant local food culture, backyard chickens have become common enough to be effectively conventional. Countless people from all walks of life have had backyard flocks. It is no longer strange to hear gentle clucking from the other side of a privacy fence while on your Sunday walk in your suburban neighborhood. Everyone has seen the green Araucana eggs. We’re all familiar with the same 10 or 12 names everyone gives their chickens: Henrietta, Dorothy, Pecky, Elvis, Red.
Backyard chickens are a bipartisan affair. In a long era of near-total polarization, the issue has been propelled by what George Washington called “joint counsels and joint efforts.” Left-wing foodies and Right-wing traditionalists are united on the chicken question, at least in practice. The former might see a backyard flock as an anarchic strike against a capitalist food system; the latter could view it as a return to a home-and-hearth normalcy. Neither is technically wrong, which ultimately amounts to saying that motives don’t really matter. A backyard chicken flock is just a nice thing to have either way.
So it was a happy thing to see Vice President JD Vance’s family <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-jd-vance-is-installing-a-maha-staple-at-the-veeps-residence">come into the backyard chicken movement earlier this year</a> by building a coop at their Washington, D.C. home. The Second Family spared no expense: Their sprawling chicken coop cost as much as $120,000 and was built to reflect the architecture of the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s official residence.
For those of us backyard chicken farmers who build coops out of old plywood and scraps of 2-by-4, the setup seemed positively luxurious (to the chickens themselves it must seem like Versailles). But the Vance family’s heart was in the right place, and, in any event, the coop cost taxpayers nothing, so who could complain?
Well. Last month, the Washington Post ran what can only be described as a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2026/07/07/vances-added-chicken-coop-vice-presidents-residence-we-had-questions/">searing exposé</a> on the vice-presidential chicken coop. “Who will be raising the hens at the Naval Observatory?” the paper asked. “And why are the Vances taking on this project?” Vital questions, to be sure.
The paper consulted “former and current backyard chicken keepers” in order to “gather insights on what may be going on at Number One Observatory Circle.” The outlet said one “possible reason” the Vances opted to raise their own chickens was to eat the eggs they lay. It’s certainly possible!
The paper also speculated about possible “political motivations” behind the backyard flock, including implying that the Vances might be adhering to the ultra-conservative, ultra-online “trad” lifestyle, of which raising one’s own chickens is often a part.
Not everyone, thankfully, has such insidious far-right motives. The Post cited one Utah-based chicken farmer who goes by “they/them” pronouns, who views chickens “almost as emotional support animals,” and who will sometimes “cuddle up” with a chicken after a bad day. “You wouldn’t think a chicken could be such a comfort,” this amateur chicken farmer told the paper. (Surely the chicken being cuddled would agree.)
Let us stipulate something important: None of this is really reflective of what is ultimately the unremarkable and historically normal practice of keeping a small flock of chickens in your backyard. Most of us can’t afford a six-figure chicken coop. Fewer of us are adherents of the trad aesthetic, which is mercifully on the decline. And only a vanishing minority of us would ever attempt to cuddle a chicken, and even then probably only once.
At their best, chickens are thankfully not political tools or social statements; they are neither “emotional support animals” nor signifiers of a “trad” custom. Like all domesticated animals, they can be an incredibly useful part of a domestic repertoire. They recycle food scraps and turn them into eggs. They can help build compost for your garden. They’re quirky and at times hilarious to watch as they run around your yard looking like a cross between a Weeble-Wobble and a dinosaur. In short, they can be a wonderful component of what the farmer Joel Salatin calls “the wisest of wise traditions.”
There’s nothing inherently flashy or glamorous about raising backyard chickens. You don’t need a Cadillac of a chicken coop, and you don’t need to treat them as an internet lifestyle choice; they can just be a part of your life as they’ve been part of the lives of countless homeowners throughout history, taking part in a redemptive and normal ecological arrangement that benefits everyone.
Of course, if you don’t want backyard chickens, you don’t have to feel bad about not having them, either. It’s up to you. Just, whatever you do, please don’t try to cuddle them. It won’t end well.
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Daniel Payne is a senior editor at EWTN News. He lives in Virginia with his family.

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In October 2025, Joy Behar made headlines when she suggested that conservatives wouldn’t come on “The View” because “<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/14/view-whines-republicans-wont-go-their-show-theyre-afraid-us">they’re afraid of us</a>.” Obviously, this caused <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/21/conservatives-call-out-view-not-accepting-appearance">several conservatives to speak out</a> and show proof that the show had actually refused their requests to come on and speak with the liberal cast, including members of Congress. A new <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/07/29/views-number-conservative-guests-swells-5-compared-87">NewsBusters study</a>, out this week, shows just how bad <a href="https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/The%20View%20Season%2029%20Guest%20Count.pdf-1785189121072.pdf">the disparity</a> was between which views “The View” allowed to be shared with their audience.
According to an examination of all 321 guests “The View” spoke with during their 29th season (September 8, 2025 to July 24, 2026), 87 of them expressed liberal opinions while only five expressed a conservative opinion.
Breaking down those numbers further, 16 of the liberal guests were Democratic politicians, both active and former. Additionally, they spoke with two of the liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices, Sonia Sotomayor (their first guest of the season) and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Then there’s the conservative side of the data.
In addition to the highly publicized appearance of Vice President JD Vance on June 16 (the last time they spoke to a conservative), they also had on L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, actress Cheryl Hines, and former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
At the time, Sunny Hostin commended Pratt’s candidacy by saying, “You are going to do so much.” That was before they <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/05/14/whoopi-wildfire-victim-pratt-shouldnt-be-passing-judgment">turned against him</a>.
The conversation they had with Hines was less about her and more about using her as a punching bag in lieu of her husband, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Greene seemed to be their favorite guest since they had her on three times over the course of the season. Only one of her appearances counted as a conservative appearance since the other two featured her bashing the rest of the party and pushing liberal talking points.
It says a lot about “The View” that Greene met the “<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/11/07/view-conservatives-dont-live-our-certain-caliber-guest">certain caliber of guest</a>” they insisted they would only speak to.
As a way of writing off most conservative writers and thought leaders, “The View” has publicly said they only want to speak with the people they talk about on the show. But that’s a lie.
In the spring of 2026, “The View” targeted and smeared The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown for her CPAC comments encouraging women to get married and have kids. One co-host even suggested Brown was in an abusive marriage.
When Brown reached out and requested an appearance so they could have a rational conversation, “The View” <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/04/03/view-continues-smear-isabel-brown-encouraging-marriage-kids">rejected the request and lied to her</a> about being all booked up. Meanwhile, they continued to attack and smear her on their podcast.
The real reason “The View” doesn’t like bringing on conservatives is because they’re the ones who are afraid. They’re afraid of being called out and having their farces exposed. Alyssa Farah Griffin <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/11/12/view-whines-about-guests-trashing-show-after-dealing-them">admitted as much</a> on their podcast when she said they don’t like “when people want to come on to, like, have a moment.”
Translation: We don’t want viral moments that embarrass us.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.

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‘The View’ Is Afraid Of Conservative Views And They Keep Lying About It

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If people were surprised to see Vice President JD Vance as a guest on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; that is likely because the show typically skews far to the Left — both in its regular hosts and the guests invited to join the table.
Data provided to The Daily Wire by The Media Research Center only serves to underscore that point, as a recent study conducted by the MRC revealed that &#8220;The View&#8221; booked 87 liberal guests and just five conservative guests — meaning the show booked 17.4 times more liberals than conservatives.
&#8220;&#8216;The View’s&#8217; 87-5 guest ratio proves the show is not diverse at all. It’s a Democrat Socialist Party infomercial,&#8221; MRC President David Bozell said.
The data was compiled over the course of the midday talk show&#8217;s 29th season — which ran from September 8, 2025, through July 24, 2026 — and evaluated only the guests who specifically spoke about politics in one direction or the other.
The five &#8220;conservative&#8221; guests were Cheryl Hines (wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), former reality star and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, attorney Alina Habba, and Vice President JD Vance.
The liberal guests — in addition to a number of celebrities who discuss political issues — included but were not limited to: New York City&#8217;s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico (also from Texas), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), former First Lady Jill Biden, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson (on separate occasions).
It is also worth noting that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, though listed as a &#8220;conservative&#8221; guest for her appearance on November 4, 2025, also appeared on the &#8220;liberal&#8221; list for her appearances on January 1, 2026, and July 7, 2026.
According to the official stated methodology of the study, &#8220;For a guest to be counted as either liberal or conservative, they needed to express such views during their appearance on &#8216;The View.&#8217; If a celebrity did not discuss politics, they were not included in the count of political leanings even if they had a history of being outspoken in the past. For example, actor Robert De Niro had a history of speaking out against President Trump, but was not included in the liberal count because politics did not come up.&#8221;
Additionally, it was noted that &#8220;conservative&#8221; guest hosts who rotated through while Republican cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin was on maternity leave were not officially considered &#8220;guests&#8221; — nor were the regular hosts, who lean far to the Left — and were thus excluded from the reported numbers.
The study comes as reports swirl about the studio making major cuts — from wardrobe to host salaries — and the show faces an investigation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into whether or not it qualifies as a &#8220;bona fide news program&#8221; and is thus exempt from &#8220;equal time&#8221; political broadcast requirements.
The network has argued that a 2002 ruling declaring the show a &#8220;news&#8221; program should stand, adding that &#8220;nothing about ‘The View’ that the law cares about has changed since the Commission last answered that question more than two decades ago. … What has changed is not the program but the political climate around it.&#8221;
The network also pushed back on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, complaining that his focus has been unfairly directed toward daytime and evening television programming &#8220;perceived as unfriendly to the current administration — while leaving untouched the vast landscape of talk radio, where candidates routinely appear without their opponents.&#8221;
The FCC responded to that criticism in a statement given to The Associated Press, saying, &#8220;While ABC insists that ‘The View’ is a ‘bona fide news program’ under the law, ABC should focus on complying with its public-interest obligations, rather than misleading the public about them.&#8221;

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'The View' Is A 'Democrat Socialist Party Infomercial' — Their Guest List Proves It

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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance eulogized the late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) from the United States Capitol on Tuesday, describing Graham as a &#8220;true American original&#8221; and a great statesman who deeply loved his fellow Americans.
Vance spoke in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday morning as he and his fellow Republicans honored the life of the late senator, who suddenly died earlier in July at the age of 71.
The vice president offered his deep sympathy and condolences to Graham&#8217;s family and staff, telling them, &#8220;I know so many of you loved Lindsey like I did. So many of you argued with Lindsey, laughed with Lindsey, relied on Lindsey.&#8221;
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&#8220;Lindsey Graham loved people from all walks of life,&#8221; he reflected. &#8220;I think in part because of the way that he grew up, because of the fact that he wasn&#8217;t handed everything. He was fascinated in everybody. He was fascinated in the wait staff in the Senate dining room. He was fascinated in the people who made the food. He was fascinated in the lowest staffer who had been hired three days earlier. He was fascinated by, of course, the very leadership of our country.&#8221;
&#8220;I think he was fascinated in people because he loved people and he was interested in them,&#8221; he added, describing Graham as the kind of person who &#8220;treated everybody the same because he was fascinated and he loved every single person in this chamber.&#8221;
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Vance shared that he first met Graham when he was on the campaign trail for his Senate race in 2022. He recalled driving in the back of the car with Graham, heading from campaign event to campaign event with the late senator, seeing firsthand how invested Graham was in his fellow Americans, and experiencing Graham&#8217;s &#8220;world-class sense of humor.&#8221;
On the campaign trail, ahead of one of Graham&#8217;s hits on Fox News, Vance asked the South Carolina senator to direct people to his website. Vance joked: &#8220;Over a four-minute interview, he must have mentioned JDVance.com close to a dozen times. The host would ask, &#8216;How was the weather?&#8217; And Lindsey would say, &#8216;Well before I check the weather, I always go to JDVance.com.&#8217; And in a four- or five-minute TV appearance, Lindsey Graham raised us over $100,000.&#8221;
&#8220;That swashbuckling, infectious laugh, that attitude, that passion that so many others have talked about,&#8221; Vance shared. &#8220;Lindsey Graham was impossible not to like as a human being and, of course, as a United States senator.&#8221;
Vance recalled getting into a huge argument with Graham about a funding bill for Ukraine during a Senate lunch. Afterwards, he said, he went back to his staff and told them he had probably lost Graham&#8217;s vote on important rail legislation he was working on. Later on, he found out that the &#8220;fiercest advocate of that bill behind the scenes was Senator Lindsey Graham.&#8221;
&#8220;I went to Lindsey and I said, &#8216;Why are you helping me? Why are you helping this legislation?&#8217; And I expected him to do what so many politicians would do. I expected him to lie and say, &#8216;Well, I really care about rail legislation.&#8217; And he said, &#8216;I don&#8217;t care about that at all.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Why are you helping me?&#8217; And he said, &#8216;Well, I don&#8217;t care about it, but you do.'&#8221;
&#8220;And that was the kind of colleague he could be,&#8221; Vance added. &#8220;A person you argued with and fought with in one minute but behind the scenes, without collecting an ounce of credit, was working for you and working for the things that you cared about in the next. That was who Lindsey Graham was.&#8221;
Vance credited Graham with helping Justice Brett Kavanaugh make it through his Supreme Court confirmation, describing the late senator as a &#8220;fierce&#8221; advocate for the embattled Supreme Court justice nominee, swaying other senators with his passionate defense of Kavanaugh.
&#8220;I believe he saved that nomination,&#8221; Vance said.
&#8220;He saw that the Senate at its very worst could be a venue for character assassination,&#8221; the vice president said. &#8220;But because he loved people, he saw that the Senate at its very best could be a deliberative body geared towards persuading people. And that&#8217;s what Lindsey Graham did in that case and in so many others.&#8221;
&#8220;I choose to remember Lindsey Graham as a man who could disagree with you without being disagreeable,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;I choose to remember Lindsey Graham as a person who could fight with you on one issue but fight for you on another issue. I remember Lindsey Graham as a man who loved people. And because he loved people, he was willing to reason with them, to respect them, and ultimately to persuade them.&#8221;
&#8220;May God comfort all of those who loved Lindsey Graham, particularly his beautiful family,&#8221; Vance concluded. &#8220;And may God rest the soul of Senator Lindsey Graham, a true American original.&#8221;

JD Vance Eulogizes Lindsey Graham: ‘A True American Original’

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We&#8217;re living through an age of rampant conspiracy theorizing, and everyone is on the lookout for the latest &#8220;op.&#8221;
Allies of Vice President JD Vance seem to think they&#8217;ve discovered the latest one: Everyone who criticizes him is part of a coordinated establishment campaign to stop him from being elected president because of his stance on Israel. Vance suggested as much during his latest appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience last week, and this past Friday, the Washington Post published a long report laying out that many of his closest confidants believe so, too.
If you&#8217;ll indulge me, I&#8217;d like to do a little &#8220;noticing&#8221; myself before we proceed further. That <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/24/knives-are-out-vance-gop-his-allies-say-its-coordinated-op/">Washington Post story</a>, titled &#8220;Knives are out for Vance in the GOP. His allies say it’s a coordinated ‘op,'&#8221; came out at 5 a.m. Friday morning. At the exact same time, MSNOW <a href="https://www.ms.now/news/jd-vance-trump-rubio-2028">published a story</a> titled, &#8220;Weight loss and a book tour: JD Vance’s stock rises in Trump’s eyes.&#8221; That story quotes five people &#8220;close to the president&#8221; who all claim the president is quietly rooting for Vance to be his successor behind closed doors, contrary to just a few weeks ago when the reporting was that he was polling his confidants about who would be best behind him, Vance or his secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
It certainly is curious that both of these stories were published at the exact same time. It&#8217;s even more curious that they were published by two outlets that will do everything in their power to crush Vance and Republicans should he be the nominee in 2028.
But what&#8217;s most curious is that those articles came the same week that we got two new surveys from major pollsters that both showed Vance&#8217;s dominant primary position evaporating — <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/july-2026-national-poll-democrats-with-11-point-generic-ballot-advantage/">one national poll</a>, and one in the key early primary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-2028-poll-just-shook-up-both-parties?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=A+New+2028+Poll+Just+Shook+Up+Both+Parties">state of New Hampshire</a>. The national poll from Emerson had Vance and Rubio virtually tied.
That leads me to what we are really here to talk about: the real &#8220;op&#8221; is not the critics of Vance raising legitimate concerns about his ideological convictions and political instincts. It is the insistence of inevitability surrounding Vance that seeks to hush all dissent on the Right.
I&#8217;ve experienced it behind closed doors since before Trump was even inaugurated for his second term. The same political operatives and media allies that pushed for Vance to be selected as vice president immediately trained their fire on 2028. Any suggestion that Vance would not be the nominee or could legitimately be challenged by anyone was met with disdain.
We have two high-profile examples in recent years of an insider political apparatus foisting a candidate on their party without allowing a normal, open challenge process to occur. Ask Presidents Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris how that worked out. Forcing people to get on board with a political project without any input creates resentment, and resentment is a tough force to work against in a general election.
The other perplexing element is that it&#8217;s completely unnecessary. Vance came into office enjoying sky-high approval ratings with Republicans and still enjoys high numbers now. Donald Trump trusted him enough to choose him as vice president. He would represent a generational shift to a younger leader with fresher ideas than the party&#8217;s old guard. He&#8217;s a Catholic family man with the elite bona fides to work a donor room and the working-class background to appeal to the Rust Belt.
All of those arguments would be plausible, affirmative cases to make for Vance to be the 2028 nominee. Instead, before we&#8217;ve even reached the midterms, Vance&#8217;s allies are going full bore to snuff out disagreement and accusing all his critics of being involved in a coordinated campaign.
They also argue that Vance is being kneecapped by the &#8220;establishment,&#8221; which is farcical on its face. Vance is the establishment. He&#8217;s the right-hand man of the singular decision-maker in the Republican Party. He&#8217;s the vice president of the United States. He&#8217;s the finance chair of the Republican National Committee.
What he isn&#8217;t yet is endorsed by Donald Trump or the recipient of a single primary vote for the Republican presidential nomination. Those are the only two things that could make anyone &#8220;inevitable&#8221; or the &#8220;heir apparent.&#8221;
I don&#8217;t know if Marco Rubio is going to choose to run. It seems almost implausible, given the close relationship between him and Vance, and the fact that Vance will inevitably be on top of him in the official chain of command. But whether he does or doesn&#8217;t, Team Vance would be better served to relax a little and let the process play out.
If they don&#8217;t, they just might end up like the last couple of presidential nominees who demanded it was &#8220;their turn.&#8221;
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Dylan Housman is the Managing Editor of the Daily Wire. <a href="https://x.com/Dylan_Housman">Follow him on X here. </a>

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A new New Hampshire primary poll points to an early shake-up in the 2028 presidential race, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) leading the Democratic field while Secretary of State Marco Rubio gains ground on Vice President JD Vance among Republicans.
<a href="https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1982&amp;amp;context=survey_center_polls">The Granite State Poll,</a> conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, shows the Democratic socialist leading the hypothetical Democratic field with 22% support, narrowly ahead of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 21%. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) placed third with 9%. 
Notably, the quarterly survey showed support slipping sharply for several other potential Democratic contenders, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris. Newsom&#8217;s support in the Granite State fell from 15% in February to just 8% in July. Harris, the failed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, also saw her support cut in half, falling from 10% in February to 5% in July. 
“Nearly half of socialists and one-third of progressives support Ocasio-Cortez, while pluralities of liberals and moderates support Buttigieg,” the polling report said. 
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New Hampshire poll of Republican primary voters on 2028 has shifted a lot since February, when it was 53% JD Vance to 7% Marco Rubio.
It is now 36% JD Vance to 26% Marco Rubio. <a href="https://t.co/kuYmt317j4">pic.twitter.com/kuYmt317j4</a>
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://x.com/BrentScher/status/2079979408043979096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2026</a></blockquote>
New Hampshire remains one of the nation&#8217;s most closely watched political battlegrounds, with its early primary serving as a crucial measure of presidential candidates&#8217; viability on the national stage. 
On the Republican side, the poll showed support for Vice President Vance slipping significantly. About 36% of likely GOP primary voters backed Vance, down sharply from 53% in February. Rubio appeared to capitalize on the shift, more than tripling his support from 7% to 26%.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley tied for third place at 8%. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finished fifth with 6%, followed by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard with 4%. 
Despite his decline, Vance enjoyed the highest favorability rating among New Hampshire Republican primary voters. The survey found GOP voters overwhelmingly want the party&#8217;s next nominee to build on President Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda, while only 28% said they preferred a candidate who would take the party in a different direction.
Neither Vance nor Rubio has publicly announced a presidential campaign. Still, Trump&#8217;s endorsement could prove decisive. More than 40% of Republican primary voters surveyed said his backing would significantly influence their vote.

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For a left preaching tolerance, the emotionally stunted quackery emanating from the mouths of &#8220;I’ve Had It&#8221; podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and the cackling, near-mute sidekick Angie “Pumps” Sullivan proves it’s a pants-on-fire farce.
On Monday, Welch promulgated a conspiracy theory from the bowels of her Luciferian sense of punditry that Vice President JD Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk are far more than just friends.
Welch extrapolated the Vances deciding to have a fourth child following Charlie’s assassination as something beyond the regret Erika had about only having two children:
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I want to remind you guys that Erika Kirk practically dry humped the vice president on stage at one of those Turning Point events. You remember the way she, like, grabbed his head and how excited she was to see him, and everybody’s like, oh my God, are they screwing? Like that energy is weird. Well then, a couple of months later, Usha ends up pregnant. Like, the timing of all of that, could you imagine if Kamala was embracing somebody like that on the stage somewhere &#8230; Look at that. You don’t hug a person. You’re not screwing and grow up with her hair like that.
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“JD Vance is a weird guy. I mean, he is so weird. The relationship is with Usha is weird, roping in Erika Kirk into their relationship that she’s there, like — what — birthing coach or something. I mean, that was some weird sh*t,” she later added.
Despite the vitriol, they’ve been heralded by elite media. Welch has been given hero’s welcomes by ABC’s &#8220;The View,&#8221; CNN’s Dana Bash, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, to name a few. And there’s been utter silence from this crowd about the comments.
But this wasn’t the first time Welch and Sullivan went after the Vance family.
During a November 2025 show, Joy Reid <a href="https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1993401409103184331">told</a> the cackling quacks that the vice president will divorce Usha if he truly wants to become president and instead marry Erika Kirk because MAGA “can’t have the successor” to Trump “be the guy with the brown, Hindu wife.”
“And he’s playing slap and tickle with Erica Kirk, the weirdest sh*t I’ve ever seen,” Welch declared, to which Reid said Charlie’s widow dispensed with “widow wear” in search of her “MAGA fairy tale.”
“But wouldn’t it be the most perfect fairy tale — MAGA fairy tale if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu? I mean, I’m not saying that’s happening,” Reid said.
Yes, Welch believes the Vances had another child because something untoward happened last year involving the vice president.
When you’re resorting to demented nightmares that might give the National Enquirer pause, you know you’re far more than just a prepubescent lunchroom bully.
Welch addressed the new lamb for the Vance family a second time, except this time with the vacuous Sullivan alongside. She told listeners this fourth “mixed-race child” could fall prey to ICE because of their father’s support for “the Kavanaugh rule &#8230; that ICE can pull somebody over that ‘looks suspicious.’”
Because of this, she asserted Vance “will not stand up for [his] own kids.”
Sullivan wasn’t to be left out, declaring Vance a “failed” father and husband.
Dovetail this with her ongoing shtick that widespread numbers of MAGA men are closeted, and you have proof that, for the Left, homophobia and racism are not only okay, but accepted so long as it’s framed and delivered in a manner that would make Regina George blush.
Welch and her clapping seal of a sidekick <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/29/former-guest-view-demands-dems-get-board-gop-assassinations">asserted</a> on October 27, 2025, that Democrats need to “get on board” with the “shift” toward political assassinations or MAGA will be “coming after you.”
A month later in the Reid episode, they <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/11/25/joy-reid-joins-miserable-libs-smearing-p-show-pony-jennings-jihad">said</a> MAGA is willing to “commit jihad” for “proto-fascist” Trump and thus are incapable of being “patriotic.”
To their delight, Reid asserted: “The fear is that if you don’t obey [Trump], his cult will try to kill you &#8230; MAGA supporters are armed to the teeth. They are rabid in their support of him, and it’s a religion.”
Welch told &#8220;The View&#8221; in February 2025 she and Sullivan perceive &#8220;I’ve Had It&#8221; as “authentic trash talking” and “counterprogramming to the toxic positivity culture.”
But with &#8220;I’ve Had It,&#8221; defamatory allegations are in, along with homophobia so long as the accused gay is a Republican.
They frequently refer to Speaker Mike Johnson as “Moses Mike Grindr Johnson,” insisting outright he and other Hill Republicans are fervent homosexuals.
In the same show with Reid, they declared without evidence the Epstein Files proved the president <a href="https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1993723159397499162">has given</a> blowjobs.
For their funhouse mirror dystopia, gay jokes are in, but say “illegal immigrant,” and that’s on-par with the n-word.
And I haven’t even touched their comments about homeschooling as <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2026/07/15/vile-podcast-smears-homeschooling-evil-child-abuse-trickle-down">“trickle-down stupidity”</a> and <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2026/07/21/affairs-and-ice-harming-babies-witch-welch-uncorks-new-smears-kirk">“a patriarchal step of the fascist project”</a> overseen by people who are “f*cking weird as f*ck that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night.”
Despite all this, they’re the new cool kids.
They’ve welcomed on fellow liberal podcasters such as Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Sam Seder, and Emma Vigeland, fellow liberals such as Brooke Baldwin, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Daily Beast editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, Leigh McGowan, David Rothkopf, Al Sharpton, Jason Stanley, Kara Swisher, and even members of Congress such as Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Simply put, they’re not going anywhere, so it’s past time someone took these miserable psychopaths to court for defamation.
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Curtis Houck is the managing editor of NewsBusters.

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