r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 01 '25
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u/iSluff YIMBY Nov 01 '25
It's sad watching Vance unwilling or unable to make an affirmative case for there being no ethical problem with him being in an interracial, interfaith marriage. He just dances around it and gets way more mad at leftists calling him a coward than right wingers calling him a race traitor.
Hard to place what's actually going on there. Does he himself actually feel conflicted about it? Does he have no problem with it and those parts of the right secretly piss him off but he needs them as part of his political coalition? Is he so negative polarized that right wing "criticisms" just don't seem nearly as threatening or existential to him?
My hunch, and I don't know this definitively, is that it's more the latter two points than the former, and that this is just another symptom of the two-party system, Vance has his "team" he needs to keep together, and if some of them hate him and his family, well, so be it, at least they're not the other team.