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It would be wonderful if JD Vance could drift into obscurity. I do worry about him sharpening his two-faced act and fooling enough people to help MAGA rise again. Trump 2.0.

MAGA folks will never change, they will just shift their support to Vance smoothly since they adore the hypocrisy. As for the rest of the country, I really hope they see the 'used car salesman' vibe that Vance projects.

When I would point out to MAGA friends Trump's flip flops in the early days, they claimed it was brilliant 3D Chess, the man was a political genius. They will say the same about Vance. They LIKE the conflicts of interest and the lack of consistency and morality. They think it is fine for their leader to serve his own greedy interests so long as he and amplifies and normalizes their racism and misogyny.

I think the only way Vance can grow his constituency beyond MAGA core is misinformation. Why on earth do people still think Trump did a better job with the economy? Why do they give Trump credit for Biden's accomplishments? Why do some of them claim FEMA money was redirected elsewhere by Biden, when it was actually Trump who shifted money out of that emergency fund during his tenure, and that Republican Congress skipped town without adding funds to FEMA just a couple weeks ago?

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Thank you!

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JD will leave politics and go running back to Peter Theil.

Unless something drastically changes, it's going to be hard for him to get anything done in the Senate and playing maga attack dog isn't going to do anything for Ohio.

I am guessing on that but when you miss all of your Senate votes to campaign, you're saying you don't care about your current job.

And then there's Springfield. A lot of angry Republicans in Ohio because of Springfield.

So my guess is he writes another book and goes back to being Peter Theil's lackey.

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Get over Trump. He's the symptom, not the problem. Outsider Trump has done the country a service. The uniparty's reaction to him has exposed the depth and breadth of the massive corruption and self dealing at the heart of our country. To quote George Carlin, "It's a big club and you ain't in it!".

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