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Behind JD Vance's bloopers, bungles and bonkers claims is a dead serious plan
JD Vance and the Politics of Useful BigotryPower Is the PointThe story is not really about an especially erratic vice president. It is about how power gets built, packaged, and laundered. JD Vance sits close to the center of the Trump regime, but the article makes clear that his real function is not policy craftsmanship or legislative brokerage. It is amplification: he gives elite racism and anti-democratic ambition a younger face, a cleaner sentence, and a veneer of intellectual seriousness.That matters because the people directing this machine are not confused. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk…
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