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10 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The thing is that as a senator J.D. Vance would act exactly like Josh Mandel and cast exactly the same votes. Whether Vance "really" believes in Trumpism is immaterial if he would have to be a Trumpist in full to get and maintain the Republican nomination, which he would
Feel free to laugh heartily when Peter Thiel's fake-Appalachian messenger boy becoming a particularly undignified Trump supplicant doesn't save him from getting crushed in the primary is what I'm saying
Right: Mitch McConnell, Josh Hawley, and J.D. Vance
Indeed, you can make a good case that since there wouldn't be a penny's worth of difference between Mandel and Vance, the fact that Vance can inexplicably get the mainstream press to treat his bullshit seriously would make him even worse

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