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Vance is on board

The Beverly Hillbilly appeared this morning on Meet The Press. JD Vance’s responses to Kristen Welker’s questions were as Pravda as you’d expect.

This one, for example:

His answer to Welker’s query about Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act were “keeping options open” vague. Pulling the trigger on the Insurrection Act would be about crime that “has gotten out of control in our cities.” (It hasn’t.)

The White House’s concern is an alleged 1000 percent increase in violence against ICE agents, not the percent increase in violence committed against citizens and non-citizens alike by ICE agents. Nor about Trump administration violence against the U.S. Constitution and to the rights guaranteed therein.

The problem is the American media, says Vance. When you begin hearing the term “pacification” from administration spokespersons, brace yourselves.

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T12:00:14.233Z

Will Trump 2.0 invoke the Insurrection Act? Magic 8 Ball says yes. As the late Charlie Kirk would say, prove me wrong, Donald.

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