Matthew Sheffield
🧵 All the memes about #JDVance really boil down to that he is a deeply traumatized person who has decided to embrace the evil he experienced instead of transcending it.
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Matthew Sheffield
As you likely have heard, Vance wrote a memoir about his traumatic childhood which featured a lot of violence and substance abuse.
Unfortunately, however, by his own admission, he has not gotten over the trauma. He said this in a 2017 interview with then-NBC host Megyn Kelly.
He is a person who constantly remakes himself to fit in, especially with authority figures.
Matthew Sheffield
He's someone who changed his name repeatedly, but hates trans people.
He called Trump "America's Hitler" but now is his chief lieutenant.
Vance seemingly wears makeup daily but hates drag shows.
He once denounced Republicans as a group "defined by what it opposes: science, liberalism, and gays," but now fulminates against secular "cat ladies" who supposedly want to force unspecified ideas onto people.
Old White Dude
@mattsheffield Hypocrisy is a MAGA superpower.
Matthew Sheffield
@breedlov It's a requirement to change your principles and allegiances on a whim. Obedience is the only ethical obligation for authoritarians https://plus.flux.community/p/trump-supporters-are-almost-impossible
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