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Haha. This is at least the second time the Coalition for Jewish Values attacks Greenblatt for, essentially, being a more enthusiastic leftist than he is a Jewish lobbyist, and the last time I recall it was over Tucker too. Sometimes it feels like the screenwriters of our simulation are trying different spins on a concept that flops on release but is too sweet to just let go. Will the CJV ever get him? Will it be enough to take him down?
ADL is a powerful, respected and feared, leftist NGO which is also Jewish. It doesn't «just happen» to be staffed and led by Jews, of course, the mission is still explicitly focused on the wellbeing of their coethnics, but – they have suffered value drift, it seems. And the community begins to reject them.
There can be many more adequate equilibria. Even 14/88 (assuming Tucker is saying this), in itself, does not instruct any action with regards to non-White people; and inasmuch as [major organizations of] Jews do not precommit to some form of anti-14/88, coexistence of outright reactionary Orthodox and likewise reactionary White Christians in the US is possible.
In practice, people fail at such fragile schemes. What people do not fail at is simple partisanship and quid pro quo. Tabletmag is periodically dimly threatening the Democratic audience with what they call an incredible moral and cultural sin (of «Deserting to the GOP»). We'll see if it gets deemed the best solution.
Considering that the ultra-orthodox are very concerned about intermarriage, it would make sense that they consider some form of moderate white, christian nationalism a good thing- they don't want their children marrying gentiles, any more than white nationalists want their white gentile children marrying Jews.
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