Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“There is a William F. Buckley Jr. line for every occasion, and the one for Sen. J.D. Vance is: ‘I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.’ Vance came to his heartland populism via an education at Yale Law School, Peter Thiel’s money, Hollywood, and the New York Times bestseller list. A venture capital man who once denounced Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency and who currently is so intimately and uncomfortably attached to Trump that it is impossible to distinguish him from a hemorrhoid, Vance has decided to be the clown prince of a very small kingdom: the realm of people who feel very strongly that the U.S. government should accommodate Vladimir Putin’s imperial project in Ukraine and beyond.” (04/22/24)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/pinching-pennies-for-putin/