I gotta hand it to JD Vance - he really knows how to be a number 2. He backed Trump all the way and amplified it.
There are two kinds of number 2's.
One mitigates and balances out their number 1 when it's time to pull them back from a ledge - backing the play but diplomatically and quietly. Redirecting where needed. *In the background.*
The other backs the play and amplifies the worst excesses of the number 1 - he is an extension of the number 1.
I'm the first kind.
Vance is the second. Yikes.