His limitless opportunism will be the US vice president’s downfall.
Ahead of the 2024 election, JD Vance praised Donald Trump in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about clover. With him you can be sure that he will not start any wars that will last forever, said the deputy. Now he has to find a way out of just such a war. The deeply religious Catholic Vance also has to justify his boss in his idiotic dispute with the Pope. You almost forget that he once called Trump a cultural heroine and America’s Hitler before he became its sycophant.
Unlike Trump, Vance was not born with a golden spoon in his mouth. He spent his childhood and youth as a hillbilly, the name given to members of the impoverished working class in the rust belt of the Midwest. He described his rise into the establishment in his acclaimed bestseller “Hillbilly’s Elegy”.