"Usually an ambitious politician has to choose between political popularity and universal personal loathing. This is not the case with J Divan Vance, vice president of the United States. He's hit the parlay in what has to be record time. He went on a New York Post podcast and really let his freak flag fly. The man was born a couple decades too late to sign the Southern Manifesto and over a century too late to vote for the Chinese Exclusion Act."
"This sudden appearance of the Ghost of Bullshit Past would have been jarring enough had it not been preceded by Vance's opening the interview with a Catholic-convert hoedown, which consisted of, among other things, blatant lies about Joe Biden and abortion and an attempt to attach Catholic teaching to the administration's publicly brutal immigration policies. I swear, adult Catholic converts are going to be the death of me."
"So you're a landlord, and you're renting, let's say, a three-bedroom house to a family of four, family of five. Okay. They're paying, let's say, $1,000 a month a couple of years ago in Springfield, Ohio, to rent that house. Now, all of a sudden, four families of Haitian migrants come in, each of them getting $1,000 per family, and they're willing to put 20 people into a three-bedroom house. So what does that do?"
J Divan Vance advanced cultural and immigration arguments framing Haitian migrants as a threat to housing affordability and local culture. He described a scenario in Springfield, Ohio, where landlords allegedly rented three-bedroom houses for $1,000 then received $1,000 per migrant family, enabling multiple families to occupy one house and driving up rental prices. He employed conservative Catholic language while making false claims about Joe Biden and abortion and linked religious teaching to harsh immigration enforcement. He invoked historically exclusionary comparisons and argued that Americans have a right to live near people with whom they share commonalities.
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