Remember when “the adults" were "back in charge?" It has been anything but. Joe Biden’s basement campaign was effective inasmuch as it kept the old coot in the cooler, but his promise to return to "normalcy?" Not so much. 

Instead, he and Kamala Harris brought in “Star Wars bar” characters to populate the administration and executive branch agencies. It wasn’t just cross-dressing luggage thief Sam Brinton and/or fake “Admiral” Rachel Levine or staffers doing a gay porn shoot in a Senate hearing room; it was Biden’s embrace of everything other than normalcy.  

Donald Trump’s pick for VP has predictably set the left’s hair on fire. Every word JD Vance has uttered has been dissected. A campaign of vilification has been set.  

“Vance is “weird."  

Leftists are clutching their pearls over Vance’s life experiences. Being a dad and finding virtue in that is somehow “weird.” The left went gaga over his Cat Ladies metaphor. Marching orders went out. Talking points issued.  

 Call Vance “weird.” 

It was patently clear that everyone on the left got the same orders. From leftist journalists to the majority leader of the Senate, everyone was using the word “weird” to describe Vance. In many cases, the result has been equal parts hilarious and cringy — like Chuck Schumer trying to dance or... pretending to grill a burger. If you want “weird,” Schumer is the poster weirdo for off-putting awkwardness.  

The best evidence of the preposterous “weird” talking-points memo is self-proclaimed centrist Joe Manchin labeling Vance “weird.” He repeated “weird” over and over again like he just discovered a fun word in a thesaurus. Asked about the utterly out-of-context Cat Ladies metaphor, Manchin said:   

Well, that was a weird comment. That definitely is weird. And some of the different things and positions they've taken seems fairly weird to me. 
 
And weird means basically, when you have rational supposedly very educated rational people saying things that just are so far out of the mainstream...I thought I've heard everything as long as I've been around, but there's some things I haven't heard. And that was a very weird way of putting it. 

This might be a shock to the system, but leftist pols, media hacks, and journo sycophants have listened to or read every word Vance has said, and they are inventing new lies based on those words. One of the most pernicious is the false claim that Vance called the other side sociopaths. Four years ago, Vance was asserting that people who think having babies is “good” and that having a sense of community is good aren’t sociopaths. He said:   

I've seen people who become more attached to their communities, to their families, to their country, because they have children. So I would say that we should care about declining fertility, not just because it's bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good. And we think babies are good because we're not sociopaths.

Vance didn’t call people without children sociopaths. He suggested that those who are opposed to babies, opposed to community and perpetuating the species, and think “humans are a disease” are sociopaths. For anyone with an IQ above room temperature, that isn’t a controversial position. Wanting society to end, wanting humankind to cease to exist, is, by definition, sociopathic.   

Antisocial personality disorder — sometimes referred to as dissocial personality disorder — is characterized by a limited capacity for empathy.  

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I predicted that leftists would “Kavanaugh” Vance. It took less time than I thought. 

‘A chameleon’: JD Vance's former classmate describes his shifting positions - YouTube

CNN interviewed a former Yale Law classmate of Vance's named Sofia Nelson. Nelson is a biological woman who appeared on CNN in an ill-fitting suit. Nelson is a "transgender" public defender who knew Vance 10 years ago and shared their private emails with CNN. Nelson called Vance a “chameleon.” Among the “gotcha” emails was the revelation that 10 years ago, Vance had more “progressive” views. In reality, that isn’t much of a revelation. People evolve.  

David Horowitz was a rabid leftist in his youth. Evidence shifted his worldview. Clarence Thomas and Eldridge Cleaver were both enamored with the “Black Panther” movement, and both changed their views over time. Perspectives change.  

Gird your loins and prepare for an endless series of smears. Those on the right (and unironically, we are on the right) need to be vocal, upfront, and loaded with facts.  

In the next 90 days, Vance needs to confront the lies with: 

“You’re lying,” and recount what he actually said. Regarding 10-year-old cultural views, he needs to say something like: “Smart people evolve, and my opinions 10 years ago were, for the most part, ill-founded and wrong.” If leftists want to trot out a churlish transgender public defender to cast Vance as the “outlier” or “weird,” let them – but don’t suffer fools. Call out the lies and confront the slanderers.  

Trump needs to debate Harris multiple times, and he can’t “wing it.” He needs to hammer her policy positions and her embrace of Biden’s policies until she was a candidate for president. If she tries to distance herself from Biden, bury her with facts. Trump needs to constantly remind America that she lied about Biden not being a human carrot.  

Ninety days. Take the gloves off.