Same! It is not particularly hard to figure that out! But apparently some people need a children's book with stuff like "the crazy old white supremacist man is not your friend" in it.

Increasingly convinced that the only thing that separates a certain kind of dumbass leftist from being a dumbass rightist is luck, not any kind of intellectual virtue or better/more reliable way of forming beliefs about the world. You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" David Duke.

I felt it coming and...oh no

This exchange is my personal nightmare

What a strategy

Right. Debating is a weird, specific skill set and Vance has the bag of tricks. He might even have been a net benefit if he could manage to stay off podcasts!

There's a nearby possible world where he has a 20 year Big Law career and then wins a senate seat as a guy who's good at debates even if he's a little awkward in person. (Many such cases) Instead he's a giant unlikeable weirdo

In between making jokes about how the horny breaks people's brains, we do talk about the future of the republican party if it can't stop nominating deranged losing candidates