Vance, Not Trump, Is the GOP Candidate for President

If Trump is elected, he won't be in office for three months.

Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Nobody really knows how Trump came to choose J. D. Vance as his running mate, but he didn’t get there by himself. Trump can’t win without the Religious Right, and they’ll have had to approve. He also can’t win without the cadre of radicals — some 70 by count — of the people who wrote Project 2025 and used to work for him. And all of them know this:

Trump is a dying personality. His brain is falling apart. He is now so riddled with dementia that even the craven New York Times and other major media outlets are finally pointing out how incompetent for office he really is.

Add to this the many brave voices — including that of General Milley and dozens of people who served in his administration — that he is a fascist who is a danger to the country. A broad swath of Republican politicians have bailed and endorsed Harris.

BUT …

There’s still something missing: the GOP is still endorsing the Trump / Vance ticket, with Trump’s craven daughter-in-law running the RNC, and there is only the softest refusal to obey the commands of the former president, who is routinely telling Mike Johnson what to do—who is meeting with fascists like Orban—who is being fronted by foreign-born billionaires like Elon Musk—who is being touted by foreign-born grifters like billionaire Peter Thiel—and who is being lied for by foreign-born megalomaniacs like Rupert Murdoch, whose kids are fighting over his estate when he isn’t even dead yet. That’s gotta set a guy back.

BUT …

They also know that Trump will be in office mere months, not years. And I predict this is what will happen if Trump wins:

• First, he’ll shut down every federal, state and local criminal case against him and fire every judge he can legally move against who was ever involved. He will then, with the Supreme Court’s kind assistance, get out of every insurrectionist thing he’s done.

• He will have all the civil cases already won against him — including the several won by E. Jean Carroll — go into appeals courts stuffed by him, and he will, if experience means anything, slither out of them all.

• He will encourage courts to charge, jail, try, convict and permanently incarcerate everybody from Liz Cheney to Kamala Harris to Jack Smith to Hillary Clinton.

The Christofascist Project 2025 cabal will leave Trump in office just long enough to ensure he can never be tried and convicted for what he’s done.

And that’s to their advantage because it sets up immunity for treason — namely, the overthrow of the American democracy — when they move to institute every single element of Project 2025, rapidly overtaking and upending the U.S. Constitution with the help of a Supreme Court with six conservative Roman Catholic Justices: Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

And whose brilliant dirty idea was this? The Federalist Society’s arch-conservative Catholic Leonard Leo.

All these people should be required to register as agents of foreign government. The Vatican is its own country — and it has, as Justia points out, other reasons that stripping women of abortion rights for wanting to take over the United States. (See https://verdict.justia.com/2023/05/03/how-did-six-conservative-catholics-become-supreme-court-justices-together)

So, After 3 Months, What Happens?

After three months of manipulating courts and destroying voting rights and implementing the first days of Project 2025, the Radical Right will remove Donald J. Trump using the 25th Amendment.

And then they will anoint J. D. Vance as President of the United States.

After all, J. D. played ball. He lied for Trump. He enrolled the woman-denigrating and woman-hating and woman-abusing toxic Manosphere by employing dog whistles used by everybody from Eliot Rodger to Andrew Tate. He didn’t go so far as to actually utter the term red pill, but maybe he’ll get Incels to believe he’ll get women for them. They’ll believe that once he’s taken physical rights, voting rights, and working rights from women — and a big, big incentive in all this is to get money and abortion rights out of women’s hands so they are forced to marry and breed for white guys, no matter how hideous they are — women will lie down for them (pun intended). They won’t all be Beckys, but they’ll do.

But J. D. has made sacrifices! Sure, he has. He sacrificed Usha.

Usha Vance met J. D. at Yale Law School. He’d already been a military journalist (not exactly your Navy Seal) and had written Hillbilly Elegy, which became a best seller.

For her part, Usha Vance emigrated with her family from India in the 1980s. She was graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in history and then from Yale Law School. She clerked first for Brett Kavanaugh at the D.C. Appeals Court and then for Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court. Then she joined Munger, Tolles & Olson, one of America’s top left-leaning law firms.

Usha married J. D. in 2014, and at that time, she was a Democrat. She converted to Republicanism in 2022, when her husband ran for Senate and won.

The Vances have three kids—Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel. NOTE THAT until the Catholic J. D. became the darling of the MAGA / Vatican / Federalist / Heritage Foundation puppeteers of American politics, it was hunky dory for Usha to balance the motherhood of three kids and a staggeringly stratospheric legal career—even as the wife of a U.S. Senator.

But then … then … he becomes Trump’s running mate, and suddenly — at the Republican National Convention no less —

Usha Gets Trad-Wifed

It’s as if J. D. dangled Usha for the Radical Right and said, “Be calm! Usha will become a Trad Wife! Harrison Butker has nothing on me!”

But make no mistake. Usha got trad-wifed by her ambitious husband. But note also, she could long since have left him but hasn’t. She’s let him chip away at her identity — changing political parties — and then totally sacrifice her to the people he knows will make him president within a year if they can just pull off getting the porcine Trump to wear his lipstick on cue for just a while longer.

Trump Knows All This

And while Trump, Mr. Health, waddles to the podium over and over again, unraveling before the MAGAs legally blind but still believing eyes, Trump is aware of the deal that has been made: he’ll do his best to become president again, procure his get-out-of-jail-free card, and then turn the reins over to the man who will complete the destruction of the United States and the life of every woman in this country, beginning with that of his own wife.

J. D. Vance, like the Catholo-fascist justices of the Supreme Court, needs to register an agent of a foreign power, the Vatican. And Merrick Garland, if he can, himself, get two nerve cells to fire at the same time, needs to bring this connection under the most brilliant Halogen lights he can find, at once. We have a country to save.

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