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\n<\/span>.D. Vance has spent his adult life explaining himself to America and yet still can\u2019t explain himself to himself. Communion<\/em> is his second memoir and, theoretically, is about Vance\u2019s conversion to Catholicism. However the crucial revelation does not occur in the Vatican or a French cathedral. No, it happens in a bleaker place: Hollywood, USA.<\/p>\n

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\nGod had given me a unique perspective, and I learned a few things. The first is that the social competition I saw at Yale Law School replays itself all the way to the top. The Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel invited me to his pre-Oscar party. It was the best people-watching experience of my life. At one point in the night, someone motioned to a group entering the room and observed, \u201cThe p***y patrol\u201d\u2014 the name our fellow guest used for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s crew \u2014\u201cjust arrived.\u201d They caused a commotion, drank a lot, and departed before I could even catch a glimpse of Leo.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m not sure if Vance will ever be president, but he is already the Mayor of Humblebrag. Yale, Entourage<\/em> guy, Leo, and the pussy patrol (tastefully asterisked). All in 104 words! There are more insights on the next page. Still at the party, Vance spies a billionaire \u2014 not Peter Thiel, Vance\u2019s personal billionaire \u2014\u00a0yukking it up with Matt Damon and Denzel Washington. Vance turns to a new friend who he describes as a \u201cminor celebrity.\u201d His straw friend makes an observation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cLook at them, man. It\u2019s high school all over again. The awkward kid laughing too hard at the popular kid\u2019s jokes. The girls floating around them. The dork paying them too much attention; the cool kid kind of ignoring them.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tVance offers a three word kill-shot.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOh, brother.<\/p>\n

\n\tAFTER A TERRIFYING CHILDHOOD, Vance\u2019s adult life has been a series of express pass rides on the water slide of ambition courtesy of the American establishment. The Marines. Yale Law School. Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Creepy billionaire. (Peter Thiel kicked in $15 million to Vance\u2019s Senate campaign.) He now lives at Number One Observatory Circle, the 9,000-square-foot office residence of the vice president of the United States, where the U.S. Navy takes care of him and his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tStill, Vance wants you to know all those institutions suck. It doesn\u2019t scan, as the poets say. All politicians are bullshit artists, but you have to be able to sell the bullshit. Vance wants you to believe he is of the elite but is anti-elite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is a heavy lift.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance is the youngest vice president since Richard Nixon and, well, there are some parallels. (Nixon told Henry Kissinger in 1972 that \u201cthe professors are the enemy.\u201d Vance gave the line a shoutout in his 2024 GOP convention speech.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNixon became vice president at 37; Vance at 40. Both never stopped believing the elites looked down on them. Nixon eventually admitted the cost of that grievance in a speech to his staff right before resigning in 1974.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThose who hate you don\u2019t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJ.D. Vance needs that embroidered on a throw pillow. Nixon\u2019s real tragedy wasn\u2019t Watergate. That was just the final scene. His downfall was two decades in the making, a car wreck in slow motion as a talented man is slowly consumed by resentment until every moral rationalization made sense. Nixon ruled by persecution confirmation and it brought him down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tReading Communion<\/em>, I kept waiting for Vance to acknowledge that temptation in himself. In a decade, Vance has gone from the kid everyone roots for to a Trump-conjoined demagogue lying about Haitian immigrants, repeatedly stating he does not give a fuck about Ukraine or childless Americans. His story starts as a heartwarming tale of a young man who scrambled to safety via the traditional ladders of American escape. Now Vance is napalming the ladder and telling the poor folks below that it is better to burn.<\/p>\n

\n\tVance wants you to believe that Communion<\/em> is about one man finding God. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s about what happens when religious conviction collides with a cult of personality. Vance argues that God must come first. Vance\u2019s political career suggests he doesn\u2019t believe his own faith.<\/p>\n

\n\tVance, a former atheist, portrays his new religion as thoughtful and ritual-bound, a thinking man\u2019s Christianity shaped by Augustine and Aquinas. Catholicism requires patience, humility, and faith in unprovable truths. Augustine, Vance\u2019s chosen patron saint, developed the idea of the ordo amoris \u2014 the proper ordering of loves. Politics, ambition, nation: all are worthy, but none should ever displace God.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s not Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tCatholicism teaches humility and kindness. Trumpism prizes loyalty to the supreme leader. It rewards grievance over mercy, and prizes total victory over virtue. Catholicism asks believers to become better people. Trumpism asks you to bitch-slap your enemies.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt\u2019s a conundrum for Vance. Let me take you back to the Old Testament class I took with the Jesuits at Loyola University of Chicago. In Exodus, the Israelites arrive at Mount Sinai after escaping slavery in Egypt. Moses climbs the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments. The Israelites lose patience waiting for his return. They grow antsy and aggressive. They tire of waiting on a God they cannot see and melt down their gold and construct a golden calf \u2014 a familiar idol representing power and certainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMoses returns and, boy, is he pissed. He destroys the calf in a fury and kills 3,000 of his wayward followers. The Israelites did not abandon religion. They traded a God who demanded patience, humility, and obedience for the quick fix. That\u2019s the universal temptation \u2014 not to stop believing, but switching your faith to something loud, immediate and angry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI thought about the golden calf while reading Vance\u2019s Communion<\/em> and, yes, Donald Trump\u2019s love of all things gold meant I did not have to stress my brain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the page, Vance embraced Augustine\u2019s insistence that no earthly pursuit \u2014 ambition or power \u2014 can rank above God. In real life, Vance serves as John the Batshit, evangelizing Trump, a man that demands idolatry. His commandment is singular: loyalty or death. (Just ask John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy). Trump is not a politician to his MAGA followers. He is the alpha and omega.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus proclaims, \u201cNo one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJesus never met J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n

\n\tVANCE\u2019S STORY IS FAMILIAR by now: absent father, drug-addicted mother, raised by his Appalachian grandmother in Middletown, Ohio. Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> became a conservative touchstone because it told a classic Republican story \u2014 a poor white kid rescued by grit and a profane Mamaw who preached personal responsibility.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNever be like these fucking losers who think the deck is stacked against them,\u201d she told him. \u201cYou can do anything you want to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Vance of Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> rejected conspiratorial thinking. He lamented relatives who questioned Barack Obama\u2019s citizenship, embraced Alex Jones\u2019 9\/11 theories, or insisted the Sandy Hook massacre was a government plot. During his book tour, he called Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign \u201ccultural heroin\u201d for the white working class and tweeted:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTrump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tLess than a decade later, things had changed.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the 2024 campaign, Vance targeted the Haitian community in nearby Springfield, Ohio, just 50 miles from Middletown. He posted that \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d were draining public services and that reports showed people were abducting and eating pets. Trump amplified the claim \u2014 \u201cThey\u2019re eating the cats and the dogs\u201d \u2014 and Haitians in Springfield received threats and harassment. None of it was true. The Haitians were in the United States legally under Temporary Protected Status. (The Supreme Court later allowed the administration to end those protections.) Jesus\u2019 Parable of the Good Samaritan is about compassion for the outsider whom society despises. Vance cast the Haitians as the Bad Samaritans.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe didn\u2019t retreat when CNN challenged him on his false claims.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re creating a story,\u201d Vance said. \u201cMeaning, we\u2019re creating the American media focusing on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVance kept creating stories once he became vice president. Renee Good was shot to death by ICE in Minneapolis on January 9 while driving around an agent at less than five miles per hour. Vance called Good a \u201cderanged leftist\u201d and told reporters it was \u201ca tragedy of her own making.\u201d Neither statement was true and Vance didn\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSomeone else might care. Jesus says in Matthew 25:40, \u201cTruly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSO WHAT HAPPENED to J.D. Vance?He answers that question more honestly in Communion<\/em> than he realizes:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am permanently terrified that things will unravel. My life quite often feels like a fairy tale, and I am certain that soon the story will end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat passage resonated with me. My Navy pilot father was an ardent Catholic, he went to Mass every day. Then, he was killed when I was 13. It\u2019s hard to believe life can\u2019t collapse overnight once you\u2019ve seen the long black car idling in your driveway. People who grow up that way crave stability. They will cling to any anchor.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of Vance\u2019s priests recognized that impulse in Vance\u2019s relationship with his wife. All of his life, the priest noted, Vance drifted from desperately relying on someone \u2014 first his grandmother \u2014\u00a0and then claiming he didn\u2019t need anything from his loved ones.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYour grandmother was your savior\u2026 But you can\u2019t treat Usha like a savior. She isn\u2019t your savior. Jesus is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe need for a savior explains Vance\u2019s political transformation. He has implied that his walkback from being anti-Trump accelerated after Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> was attacked as victim-blaming and as a betrayal of Appalachia (Vance never lived in Appalachia). Faced with that criticism, he could have engaged it \u2014 or sought a different kind of salvation. He sought out Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTrump\u2019s central promise has always been simple: None of this is your fault. You have been betrayed, and I will smite your enemies. Whether Vance truly believes that message or simply finds it politically useful is impossible to know. But Communion<\/em> recalls that Mamaw despised televangelists who fleeced desperate believers and the worshippers who collapsed at a preacher\u2019s touch.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe might be disappointed to discover her grandson has become a little of both.<\/p>\n

\n\tVANCE HAS ONLY BEEN a Catholic for seven years, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from attacking two popes and telling American Catholics not to look to the Vatican for political guidance. In Communion<\/em>, he also rejects the Church\u2019s teaching that bad actions can lead to Hell, arguing instead that our eternal destiny is predetermined by God. It\u2019s a convenient exception for Vance who is still smiling after his Haitian immigrant and ICE in Minneapolis remarks. If you believe there are no consequences for cruelty, there is no reason to practice Christian charity.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2021, Vance went on Tucker Carlson\u2019s Fox News show to lament Joe Biden and \u201ca bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they\u2019ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI listened to that interview again recently and couldn\u2019t help remembering the time I watched Carlson interview Vance during the 2024 campaign in Hershey, Pennsylvania. They reminisced about how they first met.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were at some massive bankers\u2019 conference,\u201d recalled Vance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel dirty just thinking about it,\u201d replied Carlson, whose father married into the Swanson frozen-food fortune.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost Americans would probably take a cat lady over a venture capitalist.<\/p>\n

\n\tVance now admits the remark was \u201cone of the dumbest I\u2019ve ever said.\u201d (Coincidentally his approval with American women is a dismal 35-55 percent.)<\/p>\n

\n\tHe insists he was trying to say that American culture discourages people from having children by teaching them that career success is more important.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a curious argument coming from someone whose own striving produced a fortune estimated at roughly $12 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYale introduced Vance to Amy Chua, who connected him with the agent who launched Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>, and to Peter Thiel, who financed much of his venture-capital career. Vance himself writes that Chua \u201cdeserves the most credit for this book\u2019s existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tYou could say the elite saved J.D. Vance. Now, he is Peter in the Garden of Gethsemane. He denies knowing them at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tI guess that\u2019s easier than examining your own culpability. Vancerails against education elites dismembering the American family, but his boss\u2019 actual policies suggest the problem is not cat ladies or striver culture. The United States remains the only Western democracy without universal health care. Trump and Vance have cut federal Medicaid spending and oppose paid leave legislation. Meanwhile, Trump and Vance hawk tariffs that have sent the cost of housing skyrocketing even higher. (Trump said last week he didn\u2019t care if he ever signed the bipartisan housing bill sitting on his desk.) I\u2019d argue that America\u2019s obsession with striver culture is less about ego and more about needing to make a fuck ton of money to afford kids in Vance\u2019s America.<\/p>\n

\n\tIN 2021, VANCE GAVE a speech urging conservatives to reject the institutions that made him. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, he called components of American education \u201csatanic\u201d and urged conservatives to \u201chonestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.\u201d He later praised Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s campaign to bring Hungary\u2019s universities under government control.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think his way has to be the model for us,\u201d Vance told The European Conservative<\/em> in an interview. \u201cNot to eliminate universities, but to give them a choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe interview was less journalism than a friendly promotional chat with Rod Dreher, the conservative writer who helped introduce Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> to evangelical readers and later attended Vance\u2019s Catholic baptism. Dreher became one of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s most enthusiastic American advocates, eventually moving to Budapest to work for the Danube Institute. He admired Orb\u00e1n precisely because he used state power to build institutions that could outlast his own government.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne of the reasons that the Orb\u00e1n government is building up all these institutions\u2026 is because he knows he\u2019s not going to be prime minister forever,\u201d Dreher explained. \u201cAnd he wants to have some sort of deep state built that will be able to survive whoever is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you\u2019re wondering how Vance can denounce America\u2019s \u201cdeep state\u201d while applauding Orb\u00e1n\u2019s version, welcome to the Matrix.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe inconsistency is personal, too. In one chapter of Communion<\/em>, Vance criticizes parents who sacrifice family for ambition. In the next, he describes the relentless travel that defined his own career. This past April, he left his wife and his young children at home to become one of Orban\u2019s most useful idiots. He traveled to Budapest and campaigned for Orb\u00e1n five days before Hungary\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cPrime Minister Orb\u00e1n has been one of the great defenders of Western civilization,\u201d Vance declared. \u201cI\u2019m here to help Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n however I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt didn\u2019t help. Orb\u00e1n lost in a landslide, Dreher quietly returned to the United States, and Vance added another entry to his odd streak of unfortunate timing. Only weeks earlier he had visited Pope Francis after criticizing the Vatican\u2019s immigration posture in Communion<\/em>. Francis died the following day.<\/p>\n

\n\tMaybe J.D. Vance should stay home more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tONE OF THE FEW THINGS I remember from my Jesuit education is Saint Augustine\u2019s teaching on just and unjust wars. Augustine believed that a nation has a duty to defend peace and punish wickedness if the cause is righteous. Vance knows Augustine\u2019s teachings well. He chose him as his patron saint before his baptism and mentions him nine times in Communion<\/em>, but, strangely, there\u2019s no mention of Augustine\u2019s ideas on just wars in his book.<\/p>\n

\n\tMaybe Vance blew off that week of catechism. Ukraine\u2019s defense against Putin\u2019s invasion is a textbook case of a just war. Vance did not give a shit. As Russian soldiers amassed on the Ukraine border, Senate candidate Vance told noted theologian Steve Bannon that \u201cI gotta be honest with you, I don\u2019t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another\u201d before pivoting to saying he was more concerned with keeping fentanyl out of Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt wasn\u2019t a passing thought. As a senator, Vance vehemently opposed a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remain opposed to virtually any proposal for the United States to continue funding this war,\u201d wrote Vance in The New York Times<\/em>. He reasoned, \u201cUkraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies. And it needs more materiel than the United States can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe bill passed the Senate easily, but we know what happened next. The Trump-Vance ticket was elected in November 2024. The following April, shortly after his Hungarian trip, Vance and Trump met with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. The press was let in and Vance started pumping up Trump\u2019s ego. He blamed Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy,\u201d said Vance. \u201cThat\u2019s what President Trump is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tZelensky did a spit take. Trump had infamously vowed to end the Russian-Ukraine war on his first day, but this was proving difficult since Vladimir Putin showed zero interest in negotiations.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWhat kind of diplomacy, J.D., are you speaking about,\u201d asked Zelensky. What do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tZelensky\u2019s pushback sent Vance \u2014 who has never visited Ukraine \u2014\u00a0 into an apoplectic fit. He accused Zelensky of not being grateful for American aid, claimed he was not interested in a propaganda tour of Ukraine and advised him to \u201csay thank you.\u201d All of this re-animated Trump, who started barking \u201cyou don\u2019t have the cards\u201d at Zelensky.<\/p>\n

\n\tSixteen months later, Vance and Trump have been proven comprehensively wrong. Putin still shows zero interest in a negotiated settlement. Meanwhile, Zelensky\u2019s hole cards must have been a pair of aces as Ukraine has hit Russia with a series of devastating drone attacks that puts his country in a much stronger position than when he was harangued in the Oval Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance did finally remember his \u201cJust War\u201d Catholic doctrine when it came to Trump\u2019s war on Iran. After the war started, Pope Leo tweeted that God \u201cis never on the side of those who once wielded the sword.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tVance responded by urging the pontiff \u201cto be careful when he talks about matters of theology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe then pulled out his old friend St. Augustine.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen the pope says that God is never on the side of people who wield the sword, there is more than a 1,000-year tradition of just-war theory,\u201d Vance said at a Turning Point USA gathering at the University of Georgia. \u201cHow do you say that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVance\u2019s remarks were made shortly after Pope Leo made a pilgrimage to Algeria and the ancient site of Hippo where Augustine served as bishop for 34 years. The National Catholic Reporter dryly added some context.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBefore becoming a bishop, Leo was head of the global Augustinian religious order inspired by the life and teachings of the saint; he wrote his doctoral dissertation on St. Augustine\u2019s understanding of authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was not a match between equals.<\/p>\n

\n\tYOU DON\u2019T HEAR J.D. Vance talk about Ukrainemuch these days, but he still has a soft spot for Putin, whose authoritarian regime consistently has citizens falling out of windows. In Communion<\/em>, Vance writes about his trip to the 2024 military summit in Munich. He gleefully recounts arguing with a Russian dissident that, actually, Vladimir Putin was quite popular in Russia, dismissing the dissident and the rest of Europe for not being willing to confront \u201cuncomfortable truths.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tVance returned to Munich in 2025, this time as vice president. The Europeans braced for more rhetoric about how they needed to pay their fair share for their own defense. Instead, Vance launched a cultural war.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe threat that I worry the most about vis-\u00e0-vis Europe is not Russia, it\u2019s not China, it\u2019s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values \u2014 values shared with the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVance\u2019s examples of European decline were breathtaking in their hollowness and hypocrisy. He complained about Romania\u2019s recent re-run of their elections after documented evidence of Russian interference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe must do more than talk about democratic values. We must live them,\u201d said Vance. (Last month, Vance told Bill Maher that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by technology companies \u201cthat were quite literally censoring negative information about the left and promoting negative information about the right.\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be afraid of our people,\u201d said Vance. \u201cEven when they express views that disagree with their leadership.\u201d (The Trump-Vance administration spent 2025 threatening to cut off funding to universities that did not curtail anti-Israel\/pro-Palestinian protests during Israel\u2019s destruction of Gaza and grabbing foreign students in the United States on legal visas and deporting them for the crime of questioning American foreign policy.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance\u2019s moral elasticity \u2014\u00a0not one of Christ\u2019s teachings \u2014\u00a0became clearer in June as Trump directed him to end the administration\u2019s misadventure in Iran. Vance tossed aside his belief in the Judeo-Christian alliance being the basis of Western Civilization, telling Israel to shut up and understand \u201cDonald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVance began saying nice things about the Mullah infidels in Tehran. \u201cIf you guys want to change your relationship with the United States, we will change our relationship with Iran,\u201d said Vance. \u201cThat\u2019s the offer, and we\u2019re going to have to see if they meet us there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYou could charitably say Vance was operating from a position of Christian forgiveness regarding Iran when he flew to Switzerland and signed a memorandum of understanding ending the conflict. That lasted all of two weeks. Back promoting Communion<\/em>, Vance admitted to a conservative podcaster that it was actually all about the money changers.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI think what the president\u2019s told us to do is use this MOU to sort of refill the world\u2019s oil economy, to refill some stocks, and then to see where the hand is,\u201d said Vance.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then he smiled.<\/p>\n

\n\tTHE J.D. VANCE PORTRAYED in Communion<\/em> has his priorities straight. His loves are properly ordered: God, family, country. But you can\u2019t just profess your faith, you have to live it. Repeatedly, Vance\u2019s loyalties collide and there\u2019s one clear winner. It isn\u2019t Augustine\u2019s God. It\u2019s Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Vance made a visit to the Richard Nixon Foundation. He did not come to bury the disgraced ex-president, but to praise his fellow elite-obsessed forefather.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf Watergate happened today, it would be about a 12-hour story,\u201d said Vance with a smile. He believes Nixon was brought down by deep state forces \u201cnot all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVance left unsaid the reasons why Watergate would barely last a news cycle in 2026, so I\u2019ll do it for him. The Trump-Vance administration\u2019s record of illegal ICE raids, crypto graft, and rampant lawfare makes Watergate corruption look quaint by comparison, teenagers running a three-card monte on the subway.<\/p>\n

\n\tVance didn\u2019t mention this. He just grinned and offered another observation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYoung senator, vice president, writes some bestselling books, is hated by the media. It kind of sounds like J.D. Vance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJesus wept.<\/p>\n

\n\tVance\u2019s spiritual journey is now complete. God may be in his heart, but Donald Trump sits on the throne.<\/p>\n

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