JD Vance is posting through it
Vice President JD Vance is a busy man. Over the past three weeks, heâs traveled to France and Germany, addressed the crowd at a massive conservative conference, berated the Ukrainian president, and visited the US-Mexico border. Despite his busy schedule, Vance seemingly always finds time to engage in one of his favorite hobbies: posting.
During this period, Vance has gotten into online spats with enemies of the MAGA movement from across the ideological spectrum. He’s sparred with conservative historian Niall Ferguson, Rep. Ro Khanna, a columnist for the right-leaning publications Unherd and Compact, and the seemingly left-leaning X user @allahliker, who called Vance âsoft.â He has written lengthy replies to posts about his speech at the Munich Security Conference and the tensions between his own âtech-bro libertarianâ and ârightwing religious populistâ leanings, and rebutted reports that his family had to move to an âundisclosed locationâ after protesters interrupted their Vermont ski trip.
Vance is also pushing the limits of microblogging on X, the social media platform owned by his administration’s employee (or possibly boss) Elon Musk. Taking advantage of his …