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The Legend of the beggar, Vance
Trump’s selection for Vice President is Sen. JD Vance. An ironic choice, since he once said “he could be America’s Hitler” and “his policies range from immoral to absurd” in reference to Trump, a man he called a “cynical asshole” and “opioid of the masses”.
Vance would know something about being a cynical asshole. He has only held elected office for a year, but promptly started licking the boots of his beloved leader. He’s fundraised for Jan. 6th domestic terrorists, and backed Trump’s attempt to usurp the Presidency. He openly advocates firing career civil servants and replacing them with right wing partisan hacks, and advocates simply ignoring any Supreme Court orders that would get in the way. He even called for the prosecution of a journalist who penned an opinion piece critical of Trump.
Vance is a man who once said “We are effectively run in this country… by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
In Vance’s America, women would be forced to carry their rapist’s babies, the President could pardon himself from virtually any crime and drone strikes could be ordered at will on the southern border. Overseas he would advocate bombing Iran and admires authoritarians like Victor Orban.
He is a politically conniving demagogue and conspiracy theorist who believes global warming does not exist. The through line of his career is anger, an anger aimed at punishing those he disagrees with-especially women, minorities, and increasingly anyone with a shred of a conscience.
To quote a 1940’s propaganda film against fascism, “Don’t be a sucker”.
