JD Vance's Hillbilly Pathology

Vance thinks people without kids can't really care about the future. He's only telling on himself.

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As recently as five days ago, I had all but resigned myself to another Trump presidency, watching yet another round of Democrats engaging in a stupidity contest. But now? Holy smokes! The whole party fell out of a coconut tree and has hit the context running. Have you seen all these cable news clips? Minnesota Governor Tim Walz talking about free school lunch? Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear standing up for trans kids on the grounds that “all children are God’s children?” And Harris herself, delivering a genuinely rousing stump speech! Where, exactly, have Democrats been hiding this group of cogent, compelling messengers for the last decade? I haven’t seen the party this locked in since Obama’s first run. All this is admittedly very cringe but, hey. Cringe works. Cringe wins. 

Meanwhile, Republican leadership is actually starting to look like what it’s been for at least a decade: a bunch of weirdos. Trump continues to bring up the “late, great Hannibal Lecter” for reasons I truly cannot grok. Harris’ presumed nomination has brought all the usual racist and sexist invective to the yard. Nothing new there. But there’s a new wrinkle, because Harris doesn’t have any children of her own. This is something I want to talk about a little.