Category Archives: JD Vance

A woman who once stood before the Chief Justice of the United States now sits on a low chair and reads The Tale of Peter Rabbit into a microphone. She calls the podcast an advertisement for reading. The room is … Continue reading →

A Dominican priory in Cincinnati, August 2019. A man of thirty-four kneels for baptism. He holds a Yale law degree, a wife who argues cases for a living, a venture fund seeded by a billionaire, and a memoir that has … Continue reading →

Usha Vance (b. 1986) gives you far less to work with than her husband, and the scarcity is the most telling thing about her public voice. Start with how little there is. She built a successful legal career and then … Continue reading →

JD Vance (b. 1984) talks like a man trained to win arguments. The training shows up in nearly everything he says. Start with the voice as it began. The Vance of 2016 wrote and spoke as a memoirist and an … Continue reading →

JD Vance (b. 1984) comes out of the post-industrial Midwest, the American military, elite higher education, Silicon Valley venture capital, and the populist realignment of the Republican Party. His rise reads like a story of a social diagnosis turning into … Continue reading →

I only read negative stories about JD Vance. So I asked myself – does Vance have any fans in the MSM? I couldn’t think of any. Perhaps the question worth asking is not whether mainstream outlets dislike JD Vance. That … Continue reading →

ChatGPT says: Using Alliance Theory, the obvious front-runner right now for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination is Vice President JD Vance. He consistently tops early polling averages of Republican primary voters and activists, often by large margins over other potential … Continue reading →

ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read JD Vance’s rise as the successful emergence of a new bridging figure inside the post-Trump coalition, and his future as depending almost entirely on whether he can remain a trusted transitivity node between factions … Continue reading →