J.D. Vance is about as populist as Macallan served in a crystal tumbler to a guy in a bespoke suit sitting in a leather club chair. Unfortunately, I wonder if Ohio Republicans who enthusiastically voted for Man of the People Donald Trump twice are smart enough to see through his act. Or maybe they’ll just pretend they don’t see through it – racism is a helluva drug.
You do realize that the National Cathedral is (horrors!) Episcopalian, don't you? (I'm sure that Dreher and Douthat are perfectly aware of that--though maybe they can get Fred Barnes to have his say on the matter.)
I wish I could run a perfect simulation wherein the dipshits who fall for frauds like Trump and Vance get exactly what they want electorally for, let's say, a decade: Uninterrupted Republican rule in the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court. And after those 10 years, when they still haven't gotten whatever it is they thought they would have gotten out of it because the grifters they elected were never intent on delivering, I'd be curious to know what percentage, if at all significant, would be willing to admit they were duped and how many would still insist that the liberals in California and New York (not to mention Muslims, Black Americans, etc.) were still the "real" problem. Hoping I never have to find out in real life.
I hate to be so cynical, but it’s classic pseudoconservatism: Vance only cares about opiate addiction because his mom is an addict. If a pseudoconservative isn’t personally affected by a problem, that problem doesn’t warrant their interest. It’s the difference between empathy and selfishness. Black lung, racism, environmental degradation, police violence, predatory hedge funds and economic inequality - Vance will tackle those when his coal mining Black cousin is shot by a policeman after his house is foreclosed by Bain Capital so Mark Zuckerberg can build a hunting “cabin” on what was once the hamlet of Possum Holler.
Jesus. This seems way too accurate. I'm guessing that before he nods off, Vance bones up on some Chomsky so he can use the right-wing slur du jour, "oligarchy," against Democrats and Big Tech without smirking. (The thought of "Big Tech" reminds him to deposit the latest check from Thiel.) Then, just before he enters American Dreamland, his mind spins different ways to begin sentences with "We must secure the existence of our people..."
"...they’ll just pretend they don’t see through it" is Republicanism 101. 60% 'believe' Drumpf won the election and that Antifa attacked the Capitol building. But no, they don't.
So reassuring there are still people like these selfless guys, willing to give their all to save us from being controlled by those damn elites
J.D. Vance is about as populist as Macallan served in a crystal tumbler to a guy in a bespoke suit sitting in a leather club chair. Unfortunately, I wonder if Ohio Republicans who enthusiastically voted for Man of the People Donald Trump twice are smart enough to see through his act. Or maybe they’ll just pretend they don’t see through it – racism is a helluva drug.
“men could work out their differences over a chaw and some 'shine.”
Looks like the Hatfields and the McCoys have disappeared down the same memory hole as George Wallace and Orval Faubus.
Sorry to be appearance-ist, but what is it with Republicans and their jowls?
You do realize that the National Cathedral is (horrors!) Episcopalian, don't you? (I'm sure that Dreher and Douthat are perfectly aware of that--though maybe they can get Fred Barnes to have his say on the matter.)
Attacking the "elites" is a winner with the rubes. Even when you're one of them. FDR, right?
Peter Thiel is the good kind of capitalist. He's not woke. He wouldn't cancel anyone. He would never interfere with someone's free speech.
He did secretly pay for a lawsuit to cancel Gawker but that doesn't count, it's covered by cancelation exemption 13-b-5.
Also he's not elite, who among us doesn't get infusions of blood to maintain eternal youth.
I wish I could run a perfect simulation wherein the dipshits who fall for frauds like Trump and Vance get exactly what they want electorally for, let's say, a decade: Uninterrupted Republican rule in the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court. And after those 10 years, when they still haven't gotten whatever it is they thought they would have gotten out of it because the grifters they elected were never intent on delivering, I'd be curious to know what percentage, if at all significant, would be willing to admit they were duped and how many would still insist that the liberals in California and New York (not to mention Muslims, Black Americans, etc.) were still the "real" problem. Hoping I never have to find out in real life.
I hate to be so cynical, but it’s classic pseudoconservatism: Vance only cares about opiate addiction because his mom is an addict. If a pseudoconservative isn’t personally affected by a problem, that problem doesn’t warrant their interest. It’s the difference between empathy and selfishness. Black lung, racism, environmental degradation, police violence, predatory hedge funds and economic inequality - Vance will tackle those when his coal mining Black cousin is shot by a policeman after his house is foreclosed by Bain Capital so Mark Zuckerberg can build a hunting “cabin” on what was once the hamlet of Possum Holler.
"2:00 pm Visit to the National Cathedral to take confession; press photographers shoot Vance going in and out of the Cathedral."
Opus Dei? Opus Dei.
Great piece. So hard to tell all the made up stuff from the truthiness. Entire piece 100% credible.
He looks like Erickson’s slightly less doughy cousin.
Jesus. This seems way too accurate. I'm guessing that before he nods off, Vance bones up on some Chomsky so he can use the right-wing slur du jour, "oligarchy," against Democrats and Big Tech without smirking. (The thought of "Big Tech" reminds him to deposit the latest check from Thiel.) Then, just before he enters American Dreamland, his mind spins different ways to begin sentences with "We must secure the existence of our people..."
“The Humility of the Hills.” Mwah!
"...they’ll just pretend they don’t see through it" is Republicanism 101. 60% 'believe' Drumpf won the election and that Antifa attacked the Capitol building. But no, they don't.
Wait, that New Haven hillbilly is a Catholic convert?! Figures.