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The Enabler
Will the real J.D. Vance show up?
Twenty-odd days before Election Day and we are asking who Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris is.
This is not the right question. The question we should be asking is, who is J. D. Vance? Vance stands a better chance of surviving the next four years than Harris does surviving the next two odd months, the time to certify the 2024 election.
Consider that Vance is the candidate for Vice President and heir apparent to control the Republican Party. Add to that image a doddering, conspiracy slurping 78-year-old blinded by grievance, unable to construct a sentence: you get the picture.
JD Vance doesn’t say things. He positions saying things.
Rather than let his public know what his positions are on current public socio-political issues he redefines the issue(s) by dismissing his audience. Those who bother to listen to Vance — I am one — are confused at first, by his righteous sounding obfuscation and hence by what he stands for. What lies behind his rhetoric are one, a sensitivity to how people are frustrated with their leadership; and two because ‘I, Vance, said it,’ ‘my side’ can do better, ipse dixit. (1)
That sounds like a line right out of an Ionesco play. (2)
Vance believes that abortion rights were signed into law in Ohio (2023) because…
