The millions of women voters
Politico on Vance’s bumpy week:
THE VANCE CATFIGHT — The WSJ editorial board is joining the pile-on over Sen. JD VANCE’s (R-Ohio) comments about “childless cat ladies.”
In a tough piece posted last night, Paul Gigot and colleagues call the comment “the sort of smart-aleck crack that gets laughs in certain right-wing male precincts” but that “doesn’t play well with the millions of female voters, many of them Republican, who will decide the presidential race.”
This is the fly in the ointment for political hopefuls who campaign on misogyny – they forget that women get to vote and that they’re quite a large demographic, aka half the population.
But the most interesting bit is:
The dive into Vance’s transformation from Trump hater to Trump running mate continues with this NYT piece surfacing correspondence between Vance and a transgender friend. “He’s just a bad man,” Vance writes about Trump in 2016. “A morally reprehensible human being.” He also tells his friend, “The more white people feel like voting for trump, the more black people will suffer. I really believe that.”
So he knows. He knows Trump is just a bad human being. He knows and he’s doing this anyway. Quite the morally reprehensible human being himself then.
I don’t mind being a childless cat lady…though I do have one child who lives a half continent away. My two cats are better company than a child would be at this point.
Vance’s shifting approach to Trump make me wonder if he is some variety of accelerationist? The crude idea being that bad things will happen no matter what, and it’s approximately cyclical, and good things follow the bad things, so facilitating the bad speeds up getting to the good.
That’s not really the natcon brand; gain power *then* wreck everything is more like it.
I don’t think that’s inconsistent, though, since the accelerationists believe that these good things will naturally be born from the wreckage. So the wrecking is, in their view, the necessary step before the good things.
Arcadia – I don’t know if Vance is an “accelerationist”, but it would explain quite a few things if he is.
Oh, for the days that I was a childless cat lady! I am now a childless pug-in-a-pram lady, that surely must be worse.