If you saw JD Vance’s interview as he visited California, you probably took note that, because he’s a racist moron, he called Sen. Alex Padilla “Jose Padilla” and accused him of engaging in political theater by choosing (??) to get slammed to the floor and cuffed by the FBI on behalf of the millions of Hispanic constituents he represents; people JD Vance desperately wants to deport.
But the racism is just a byproduct.
Because Vance’s premium Yale-worthy insult inadvertently exposed his much deeper obsession with names and identities.
You may recall, JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman, after his birth father.
But his birth parents then divorced, and his second father literally renamed him James David Hamel, after himself.
That marriage also failed, resulting in JD changing his name to match his grandmother’s name, James David Vance.
But he still didn’t like the James David, so he changed to J.D. Vance. For a book.
Then he removed the dots. So, for now, we have JD Vance, insulting others’ identities by misnaming them.
Ohh, that’s irony.
Now, I’m not a psychologist, but just for fun, let’s take a minute to unpack how his identity crisis has metastasized to where we’re now dealing with a vice president projecting unresolved generational trauma directly into American society.
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