JD Vance’s first weeks as vice president is not impressing his constituents back home in Ohio given a recent op-ed published by the Ohio Capital Journal.
In the op-ed, columnist Marilou Johanek dubbed Vance “the lapdog vice president” adding that he seems to have “settled into his nondescript role as an appendage in the Trump-Musk administration.”
Johanek then went on to sarcastically praise Vance as having “done Ohio proud” with his list of accomplishments so far in the role as VP, which according to the columnist, include “managed to be firmly rebuked by Pope Francis, denounced by outraged NATO allies and widely ridiculed for his bizarre âmasculinityâ rant at a weekend MAGAfest.”
âThe last thing the world needs now is a U.S. vice-president trashing eighty years of foreign policy with Americaâs closest and most enduring friends,â Johanek wrote, referring to Vanceâs friendly meeting with the leader of Germanyâs far-right nationalist AfD Party, which German courts have ruled is a threat to democracy
“Vance, the shameless election denier in service to an authoritarian regime lawlessly dismantling a democratic republic, had the towering audacity and historical blindness to lecture his European audience on democracy,” Johanek added.
The columnist wrote that whatever reputation Vance may have had in the past as a “thoughtful individual with at least modicum of integrity is long gone,” during his short four weeks as Trump’s VP..
âVance has been doing us proud by attacking friends, embracing enemies, insulting humanitarians, drawing papal ire, and pontificating laughably on what makes a man a man. Seriously, what is wrong with J.D.?â Johanek concluded
