Antagonizing Supporters

This is the kind of thing I meant the other day when I talked about people who make it very hard to support their cause:

“Read this to know how to speak of this” is insulting. Aimed at somebody who spread himself very thin to help your cause, it’s smug and stupid.

This annoys me to an extraordinary extent. Vance is nothing but sweet to Israel to the point of subservience in this tweet. And this is still not enough? He still gets lectured haughtily to educate himself?

My post is not about Vance or Israel. It’s about every cause whose supporters don’t know how to take a W and move on. There’s a lot of this going on. If you express support for people once, they begin to act like this grants them the right to throw tantrums at you for all eternity. I’m not Vance and don’t much like Vance but this exact thing happened to me. I was expressing support when I was rudely interrupted and told I was using a wrong term and needed to keep to the exact (and very fussy) terminology that they preferred. It was shocking that people would choose to antagonize a sincere supporter for absolutely no reason.

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  1. Podhoretz is just a never Trumper looking for any excuse to hate an administration that has objectively been good on issues he cares about. Unfortunately he is damaging the credibility of these causes in the process

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    1. “Podhoretz is just a never Trumper “

      For me his defining moment is still the meltdown he had over a late Schnipper burger delivery….

      It’s possible he could overcome that… somehow but so far, he hasn’t.

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