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JD's Strategy

Behind his bloopers, bungles, and bonkers claims is a dead serious plan

Robert Reich
Jun 10, 2026
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J.D. Vance giving an address in front of a microphone

Friends,

I’ve been watching JD Vance as carefully as anyone can track a snake in the grass, which is to say, with some difficulty. He has seemed uncomfortable with Trump’s grandiose foreign ambitions, especially Trump’s failed war in Iran, but I’ve seen no evidence that JD has spoken out against any of it even inside Trump’s ego-echo chamber.

JD hasn’t c…

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