'Where'd you go to school?' JD Vance raked over the coals after 'stupid' Nixon comment

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 4m

Rebranding Power as VictimhoodThe TrickVice President JD Vance stood at the Richard Nixon Library and tried to sell a familiar con: that the institutions Nixon weaponized were actually the shadow force that destroyed him. On MS NOW, Joe Scarborough called the claim ahistoric and stupid, and he was right on the substance if not the theater. Vance, while promoting his book Communion, was not offering analysis. He was laundering a political grievance into a historical theory.Who Had PowerThe answer in this story is not subtle. Nixon had power. The FBI, the CIA, and Washington insiders were not…