I See Red People

“How do you summon up shame for so many years of shamelessness? … For some, it will be impossible, even embarrassing, to keep Trump at arm’s length. Vance, for example, who long ago likened Trump to Hitler and to ‘cultural heroin,’ is far too bound to the regime, too eager for a promotion, too memorable as MAGA’s highest-ranking smirk to bow out now. The vice president can pray that the Iran war is his party’s only problem, but the guy who promoted lies about Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats, who publicly supported fatal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and who defended the most reviled attack ad in the 2026 midterms might want to try that ‘honest conversation’ with himself. One day you’re riding the Trump train; the next, you find yourself tied to the tracks.” NYT (Gift Article): JD Vance Needs to Stop Trying. (Trump’s enablers like JD Vance are political versions of Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. They don’t realize they’re already dead.)