Oh dear. In his never-ending desire to appear clever, it seems that Rory Stewart has slipped up again. You might have thought that after his poor predictions of a Kamala Harris landslide, the former Tory MP might be taking a break from super-forecasting and philosophising. But no, undaunted by past humiliations, ‘Florence of Belgravia’ seems unable to break his addiction to social media, weighing in on each and every matter on both sides of the pond. Today it’s an interview which J.D. Vance did with Fox News in which he declared that:
There’s this old school – and I think it’s a very Christian concept by the way – that you love your family and then you love your neighbour, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritise the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that.
This prompted a righteous retort from Stewart. He quickly told the Vice President that his comments represented, ‘A bizarre take on John 15:12-13 – less Christian and more pagan tribal. We should start worrying when politicians become theologians, assume to speak for Jesus, and tell us in which order to love.’ Vance shot back by suggesting Stewart look up ‘ordo amoris’ and ‘the idea that there isn’t a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense’. He then added the final coup de grâce:
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.
Questioning the effortless superiority of Balliol Man? Emergency podcast incoming…
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