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JD Vance stuns America with series of forgettable platitudes
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., September 10, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee/Pool
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JD Vance delivered this speech as vice president of the United States, addressing the governing party’s midterm convention. Yet he spoke as though he and his audience were dispossessed outsiders struggling against unnamed “radicals in Washington.” The contradiction is the point: Republicans hold executive power, but MAGA rhetoric requires them to perform permanent victimhood so…
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