The Agony of JD Vance

There is Kentucky Maxim about politics that the old timers like to say: “Never make a home speech at home; and never perform with your hometown in the Capitol.” Last month Vice -President JD Vance violated this rule when visited Munich and detach Continent leaders that they needed to raise a ban on far -right political parties and allow them to return to the main one.

European leaders were clearly shocked. These extreme right parties often call into question the official story of the Holocaust, if not about open sympathy for their goals. But while such a thing that is not mostly within European politics, it is now acceptable to say here in the hometown of America Vens, where our own long -year -olds are sublime with the white nationalist movement – more so embodied by the Confederation – all this has not returned to full force.

However, it was strange for the vice -president that the vice -president said aloud and publicly. For example, even the most activists of the vice -presidents – Dick Cheney – retained a relatively low public profile compared to their superiors. (Sometimes it seemed that you could go for months at a time without knowing what Kamala Harris was doing.) It would be incredibly if he was Trump’s first vice -president Mike Pence. Such a statement is more suitable for the Secretary of State or National Security Advisor.

But after his post in January, Vnes regularly arranged in the debate, much higher than his fee, conveniently using the liberal media, which was already based on consumption – with equal parts of guilt, admiration and mosaocism – what he has to say. And, or is it rampant on random people in Twitter either provoking the argument With a literal Pope he says a lot of time, all the time, very loud.

All this is a completely different version of the vice -president than the one we are used to. Instead of taking on a certain political portfolio or limited to the fact that silently stood behind Trump at the performances, Vnes took over the role of a leading cultural warrior and the theorist of the administration. His appointment Trump, to agree on the future of the ticket, as well as the recent advantage with Pope Francis as to who it is, and not acceptable empathy, show where his priorities lie.

The vice -president seems to spend most of his time in the laboratory (ie Twitter), developing the details of how and why all the cruelty of the Trump administration corresponds to three material constituencies: gospel Protestants, traditional Catholics and technologies -three designs that are synthesized Group.

Vens doubled his tendency to the spectacle during an instantly notorious meeting of the Oval Office with President of Ukraine Valodimir Zelensky. After that began as a tense but still heart discussion, vice -president suddenly flashed In the tirado about the wrong handling of the Ukrainian leader’s war and the lack of respect for the US for its inclusion. “You said thank you once, all this time?” Vnes shouted, with Secretary of State Mark Rubio buried The sofa is next to him.

Zelensky tried to protest, but this led the Trump to the fight, initiating the already known struggle, which, in addition to trying to stop the ceasefire immediately, and, more importantly, in terms of Trump, the Ukrainian Mineral Agreement. (Since then, Ukraine and the US have returned to the negotiating table.)

Whether the action of Vens is planned or outside the community beforehand, it is a matter; This is noticeably in awe of Trump, and he had the desired effect symbolically and officially gaping with the position of Biden’s administration on war. What is more relevant is the content of Vens explosion and what he portends his role in American politics.

As an articulation of American imperial politics after the world of war II, You if -did you say thank you? Immediately extra and novel. To such an extent that it is a break from the past, it is imperialism as a political spectacle, what can claim to the base of one particular party, and metabolize as an expansion of the future of its own country. By this point, Ukraine was presented as in the interests of the country; Now it is exclusively in the interests of the Democrats, and its abandonment of the interests of the Republicans. Because of this, it is also the most public death of the previous imperial paradigm – the banshi cry of the empire that throws hysterical because it is increasingly able to reproduce hegemony in any part of the world, which is not 8,000 square miles in the left, known to some as Israel.

But even more important is the one who issued this cry: the faded, heart-hearted heart, which was once a liberal pet, but now has all the old ones with a tough right transformation. You if -did you say thank you? Not only aimed at Zelensky. He is probably aimed at both Trump’s republican and office, where Vnes is something out. He is not a businessman like Elon Musk. He’s not playing the boy like Pete Hagset. He is not an heir of a political dynasty trying to restore or reconsider some former glory, such as Robert Kennedy -Younger, Trump – Note The fact that he did not consider Vens his heir in the 2028 elections, although it was obvious that Vnes is the only one in this office with some political and cultural initiative that did not perform the raid that there was little left of public communities.

Vnes is also a more novel in the chronicle of conservative operators. He is not such a Machiavelian genius as Mitch McConselle; He is not a frantic guru tax like Grover Narkvist, or obsessed with taxable as a revolutionary like Newt Gingrich. It is somehow similar to William Bakley as an intellectual obsessed religious piety; But the religious transformation of Vens: from Protestantism to Catholicism, betrays the lack of conviction in fact. It is in this philosophical void that its tendency to mill-white white nationalism and monarchism.

If we take the definition of Robert Frost Liberal as a person too wide to take your side in dispute, then JD Vance was once, in temperament and atomic makeup, liberal-hai and defect because he could, like it A one -time choice, tuition rights McConselle, readily read the wind direction. Many of us were confused as to why Trump chose it as his partner, but after two months of Trump’s second term, it is now obvious: the temperament and the Vnes trajectory make a temporary consistency from the Inhata Miosma, which is an American reaction.

Saw from this light, You if -did you say thank you? This is the ideal articulation of American fascism in the 21st century. Show this in any direction, and his return echo is lonely, desperate, backed up – and more, on a small subgroup of Americans, expanding the opportunities. Heartlander asks the capitalist rusty belt that stole his work for coal, steel, oils – oils –You if -did you say thank you?– Because everything he received in return was destroyed by land, debt, drug addiction and unemployment. He turns to the indigenous person he has moved in the name of progress and freedom –You if -did you say thank you?– And the question masks the secret doubts, the knowledge that in the depths of the Jooman did not make neither progress nor freedom, and actually provided his own movement. He appeals to the University of Ac You if -did you say thank you? And, without seeing any change in his own psychological constitution or material conditions, thus begins to think that the university must also be destroyed.

Finally, he turns to refugees, poor, hungry, all washed on the shore of America from the sins of yesterday’s imperialist and capitalist, and knowing that this country also does not hit them, he turns fury and asks them –You if -did you say thank you? Thus, he sits down to write memoirs, hoping to remake the world in his inconspicuous, well -sensitive image and metaphor. The speech of the hometown is blurred with the speech of the Capitol, and eventually the whole world must pay for the lack of criminal record, internal consistency and courage.

This does not mean, whether Vens will have a future in American politics. Things change every day and they change quickly. The fact is that what started as an elegy has turned into an empty demand for restitution for not supporting restitution.

This demand can never be fulfilled or put. It can be postponed and redirected in further release and release. Vens knows it; He is not an idiot. But in the fact that we are all living the incarnations of deep truth, the universe is trying to talk aloud, its presence on the political scene recognizes and tries to establish the main fact of America that everyone, from the indigenous, Zelensky, to Hilbili, knows deeply: that America never honors his transactions.

The fact that Vens has agreed with an unmatched dishonest deal, Donald Trump would hint about the future in which the country knocks down even harder against those for whom this demand is. The fact that the elite has managed to enlist such a person as Vnes in this process, can be considered extremely gloomy. I prefer to view this as an opportunity to review the demand and push it as far as it will go.