If you take Rachel Maddow seriously, JD Vance is a scary dude who does not have America’s best interests at heart.
Vance subscribes to the rantings and ideology of Curtis Yarvin, a college-educated advocate for, among other things, gutting higher education and selling the properties to developers—which is just the tip of the iceberg of what he has in mind for America.
It seems the height of irony that Yarvin speaks ill of universities—of which he is a product—and considers them repositories for everything that’s wrong with America. What’s worse is that JD Vance mentions Yarvin’s name in the same breath that he talks about doing what it takes to rid the country of anything that smacks of progressive or liberal. Sounds like Vance prefers blowing things up and starting over.
Yes, this is the strangeness with which we are dealing right now. And it’s not like we needed Maddow to remind us—it’s just that she clarifies things, helps us see just how long this shit has been rumbling around in the zeitgeist. It’s been idling in the background for a century or longer, and has once again reared its ugly head.
Trump and Vance? They’d be a fucking nightmare. The fact that people can’t see this, or refuse to process it, is beyond mystifying. It’s infuriating.
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