Cvetin Chilimanov //////////

I've had good, thoughtful conservatives trying to convince me that @christopherrufo, while sometimes a bit over-the-top, was a good faith operator. He's not. That much should have been clear after his bizarre "eating the pets" conspiracies. Now, he's attacking @jonahdispatch in consecutive tweets each built on obvious lies. First, he pretends that generic criticism of TPUSA's ineffective GOTV efforts is a "cheap shot at a good man who was recently assassinated by a deranged leftist." There was literally no allusion to Charlie Kirk in Jonah's seven-word tweet. He just made it up. Second, Rufo claims that Jonah "supported" Donald Trump's "regime-change war" in Iran. Nobody who has actually read Jonah on that war or listened to his regular analysis of it, would ever make such a claim. Or at least would ever make such a claim in good faith. Jonah has acknowledged the strategic rationale for the US seeking regime change while consistently criticizing the war itself. From the case for war to the obvious lack of preparation for Iran's response to the overall execution of it. In my many, many hours discussing this with him over the past eight months -- in public, on podcasts -- he's been an exceedingly tough critic. Either Rufo doesn't really know Jonah's views on the war or he does know and once again decided to just make them up. I'll resist the temptation to speculate about why Rufo would go after Goldberg, especially this week. But dude's a bad faith operator.