Vice President JD Vance has been on fire this week, laying down schooling on a variety of issues.
He explained in depth the Trump’s administration’s position on Ukraine to historian Niall Ferguson in a post that many cheered. Then he followed up with another post, rebutting aspects of Ferguson’s response. That also appealed to people — here, we finally have a vice president who is intelligent and able to explain policy without getting lost in a word salad. What a change it’s been from the prior four years.
Vance also took on the latest thing the Democrats were trying to make into an issue — the replacement of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown. The talking points must have gone out. The Democrats are trying to paint it as somehow political, but it’s normal for a president to pick the person he wants, since the role is to be the president’s principal military advisor. I wrote earlier about the meltdown Susan Rice had.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) went there as well, as our friends at Twitchy reported.
Dictators or wannabe kings fire generals who don’t agree with their politics. This isn’t a banana republic.
What Trump and Hegseth are doing is un-American, unpatriotic. It’s definition of politicizing our military, and we should expect to see loyalty oaths (not to the… https://t.co/KrUa6NRKAt
— Seth Moulton (@sethmoulton) February 22, 2025
Wow. What a failure to understand history or the Constitution. […]
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