What exactly is all this craziness intended to accomplish?
Why would a guy who wants to be president make a practice of unnecessarily insulting huge swaths of the electorate and going up against a hugely popular American-born pope?
Strange as it seems, his outrageous comments – presented as if they are the product of a thoughtful, serious person – are no accident.
Vance is sending a clear message to Trump’s dedicated base that he’s just as good at stirring up hate and grievance as the man they elected twice as president.
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Better at it than the more moderate Marco Rubio, the secretary of state who is his most likely competitor for the 2028 Republican nomination.
In essence, he’s saying something like this: I might have written serious books and have a law degree from Yale but don’t worry, I hate the same people you do.
And governmental malfeasance doesn’t rattle me.
As former labor secretary Robert Reich wrote recently, “Vance resembles Trump in every way – he lies effortlessly, he’s utterly without principle, and he’s intent on gaining power – except that he’s smarter and more ruthless than Trump.”
Thus, a more dangerous demagogue.
So far, most American citizens are not buying Vance’s act. His popularity, which started off the latest Trump term in positive territory, now is “underwater”.
As CNN’s Harry Enten put it recently, he’s a historically unpopular vice-president.
Enten blamed this partly on Vance’s forays into international affairs, as when he campaigned for Hungary’s Viktor Orbán this past spring.
