What Happened to JD Vance?
What Happened to JD Vance?
with John McWhorter
There was a time not so long ago that JD Vance had a sizeable audience of liberals who admired his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. John McWhorter was one of them. Now, with Vance running on Donald Trump’s ticket and engaging in what some view as anti-immigrant fear-mongering, it’s safe to say that time has passed. John thinks there’s only one explanation for this apparent shift in Vance’s politics and tone: he sold out. I’m not so sure though. In this clip from our most recent conversation, we debate the issue.
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I was going to write "what happened to John McWhorter?" but someone already did. No one would mistake McWhorter for carrying water for the right. I'm going to diagnose him with TDS. I know the symptoms; I had it myself. #1 Donald Trump is the most liberal Republican politician ever to run for president. #2 Anyone who says there is no "evidence" for the "dogs & the cats in Springfield, Ohio," has not bothered to watch/listen to the many accounts – testimonies – of Springfield OH residents begging their city council members to do SOMETHING to deal with the momentous crises that have been created in their towns and cities by the Biden-Harris regime. Testimony is evidence. It's evidence in a court of law. Testimony was evidence – "proof" according to my former lifelong party and their Legacy media serfs – when Christine Blasey Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh of rape. But testimony of ordinary people, that's not even considered evidence. What do you want? Do you expect people to bring a roasted cat corpse or a decapitated duck (in which case they'd be told, "you got proof you didn't roast/decapitate that animal yourself"?) to the city council meeting?
The people who dismiss the cats, dogs, and the ducks in Springfield could have walked off the pages of Rob Henderson's "Troubled." They are the luxury citizens who'll never have to suffer the consequences and costs their luxury beliefs inflict on working people in America. James at "Empty Pockets Garage" (YT) in Springfield, OH will tell you all about it.
Well when you allow millions of immigrants in in a 4 year span and most of them on the public dole, it does make one change their mind.