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Vance Can’t Say the Boss Is Wrong

2025-10-13 News & Politics
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JD Vance's Interviews Expose MAGA Gaslighting and Loyalty Over Truth

Analyze how JD Vance pivots away from facts by dismissing inconvenient truths as "left-wing media" attacks. Readers will understand the tactics used to replace accountability with blind loyalty to Trump.

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  • JD Vance consistently refused to condemn calls for jailing political rivals, suggesting a breakdown of accountability.
  • Vance framed legitimate investigative journalism (ProPublica) as biased attacks from "left-wing blogs."
  • The discussion highlights the perceived GOP double standard regarding federal interference versus state rights concerning local law enforcement.
  • This episode breaks down how MAGA messaging relies on denying established institutional norms, like the separation between military action and domestic policing. This conversation between Will Salatan and Mona Charen dissects JD Vance's performance across two major Sunday news interviews. They focus on his evasiveness when challenged on federal troop deployment, the jailing of political opponents, and hypocrisy regarding Trump administration ethics investigations.

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Will Saletan and Mona Charen take on JD Vance’s reality-bending interviews—where every inconvenient fact becomes “left-wing” and every lie gets a new excuse. From calling governors criminals to dismissing real corruption as “media reports,” Will and Mona expose how MAGA’s gaslighting has replaced truth with loyalty. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@egx161 2025-10-13

JD liar. This guy changed his entire personality for power and money. Vance has no principles whatsoever. How does he sleep at night? He is worse than Pence was.

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@babesimmons4017 2025-10-13

When vance speaks, peter thiel's Words come out. Vance is peter thiel's Puppet.

185 9 replies
@zaphoddog3878 2025-10-13

The governor of one state sent troops into another state 1100 miles away, against the will of that state. How is this not civil war?

126 5 replies
@TroyBrophy 2025-10-13

Anyone who's still telling themselves "it can't happen here" hasn't been paying attention. We literally have US troops deployed in US cities.

124 7 replies
@BrendanToungate 2025-10-13

George just cut his feed, which is the exact right thing to do.

108 3 replies
@SparrowRead 2025-10-13

The spotlight should be more and more on JD Vance, to show just what he is. Thank you for doing this!

91 1 replies
@johncorliss2091 2025-10-13

Don't think of lying as a right. Think of it as a moral failure.

85 1 replies
@pipestone67 2025-10-13

It's crazy how they just blatantly do it.

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@lesliejones9705 2025-10-13

I have commented frequently that the best description of JD Vance was from Josh Shapiro during the 2024 campaign, which bears repeating: "I’ll say this about JD Vance: it’s really hard being honest with the American people when you’re not being honest with yourself. He is the most inorganic candidate I think I have ever seen. He doesn’t know what he believes, and that is why it is impossible for him to articulate a coherent message to the American people—because he doesn’t believe it.

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@ctrl-shift-run 2025-10-13

Cutting Vance off is something more reporters and anchors should do. They should also do it earlier in the interview rather than allow the lies to spread in the first place.

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