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Opinion: J.D. Vance Had His Worst Week Ever. Let’s Celebrate
April 13, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersThere is no doubt that J.D. Vance is one of the smuggest, smarmiest politicians in modern American history. And that is saying a great deal, given that politics attracts the smug and smarmy like moths to a flame. It is saying even more when you acknowledge that we live in a true golden age of smugsmarm, lit by that flame to the unctuous, insincere, condescending and insufferable, Donald J.
Trump.Consider how many prime examples of smugsmarm we have to choose from: Scott Bessent. Karoline Leavitt. Mike Johnson. Greg Abbott. Ron DeSantis. Pete Hegseth. Matt Gaetz. The Huckabee family. Vivek Ramaswamy. Most Fox News hosts. Many Fox News guests. Pam Bondi. Kristi Noem. Melania. Jared. Ivanka. Don, Jr. Eric.But among all these, there is something about J.D. that is especially odious. It could be that he condescends to everyone. It could be that he has made a career of transparent insincerity. It could be that he is a protege of evil oligarch Peter Thiel. It could be the feeling he communicates every time he opens his mouth. It could be the most punchable nose in the long history of punchable noses. It could be his beard. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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