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| Interesting Opinion Piece-J.D. Vance Comes Home to the Marine Corps | |
| 2025-10-22 | |
by Kurt Schlichter
The Veep did not make any major news or announce any policy changes. He just doubled down on what the Trump administration is all about—greatness —and that meant interacting with great Americans. I don’t need to build up the Marine Corps’ collective ego. That’s like feeding J.B. Pritzker more to make him fatter; it’s hard to do, but they’re happy to try. But the fact is – as the Veep (a former lance corporal who is now getting salutes from four-stars) observed to the audience of about 15,000 troops and families – the Marine Corps fought the trends of wokeness and remains the Marine Corps. The rest of the Pentagon allowed itself to be degraded into a woke nightmare of bulging waistlines, perversions, incompetence, and politicization, while all the Marines want to do is kill America’s enemies. These are tough, mean little guys. Jesse Kelly aside, Marines are generally tiny and wiry. This gave me great hope for the future, because the future is going to involve killing bad people, and it’s nice to know we’ve got folks eager to do it. Watching the Vice-President work the crowd, including off-script banter and signing a bunch of the Devil Dogs’ covers thrown on stage, is watching a future master learning his art. Republicans, we’ve got somebody special in J.D. Vance. Now, I’ve known that for a long time. I’ve had the chance to talk to him and his wife, and, importantly, my wife had a chance to talk to him and his wife. My wife approves of them, and so do I. We both meet a lot of politicians; a lot of them are nice but unexceptional. Some are stiffs. Not the Vances. The thing about J.D. Vance is that he’s so resolutely normal, even when he says things that drive the elite crazy. He wears his famous background on his sleeve; the guy grew up in Appalachia in a troubled home, surrounded by drugs and poverty and all sorts of other tribulations. He joined the Marines, got a college degree, ended up at Yale Law School (which I do not hold against him), came out of nowhere to write a bestselling book, went to Silicon Valley, became a senator, and was picked by Donald Trump as his running mate days after they tried to murder 45/47. It’s no secret that a lot of Republicans didn’t want him. Well, the elites still don’t want him. That’s because J.D. Vance came from what they consider nothing and beat them all at their own game. He’s uppity, and that’s intolerable to the snobs and swells. Vance’s strength is that he has tapped the magical power of not caring. This is because he knows the elites, having been invited to join them, and he is distinctly unimpressed with their credentials and pretensions, their airs and arrogance, and their total inability to competently or honestly run the institutions they have inherited as America’s cultural trust fund babies. | |
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