It’s no secret that the United States of America is a deeply divided country.
In that division, voices are raised against political leaders by opposing parties. Allegations are made, falsities are promoted, and it must appear to outsiders that the American Political System is a free-for-all. An out of control no-holds-barred rumble.
Our Vice-President, J.D. Vance, who is the third youngest person to become Vice President, and the first of the millennial generation to do so, has been both praised by members of his party, and denigrated by democrats.[1]
He is a frequent target of liberal libelers, and fomenters of false allegations.
As one cuts the way through the jungle of criticism and antagonism that Vance must go through, there are certain indisputable facts about him. And that’s true regardless of from which side of the political fence one views him.
He is a graduate of Yale Law School, and was on the Yale Law Review, which is no mean intellectual accomplishment. He is a United States Marine Veteran who served honorably in Iraq.
He is married to a woman of East Indian descent, and yet has been accused of being a racist by Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who said of him, ‘It’s disgusting and disgraceful that someone seeking the nation's second-highest office would stoop to such baseless, hateful rhetoric.’[2]
Yet, said congresswoman, in her diatribe against Vance, made reference to the patently false rumor that Vance had experienced an intimate relationship with a couch. ‘Vance would be better suited to continue writing his fictional tales and testing out his sofa.’[3]
It seems that this newly elected black Congresswoman holds herself to a double standard when it comes to ‘fictional tales.’
Vance is a successful man, having made his money in Silicon Valley. He is a family man. He is a Marine Veteran who honorably served in a War Zone.
He graduated from one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, and served on their Law Review, which requires some impressive academic performance to do so.
So what of his congresswoman critic?
Let’s look at her website with respect to her academic credentials. ‘Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Howard University. In further pursuit of education, the Congresswoman also earned a Juris Doctorate from St. Thomas University.’[4]
Not quite the same level of accomplishment, as that law school ranks 98 out of 200, while Yale ranks first.[5] She is not a person that should repeat nonsense about couch romances, our Ms. McCormack.
By the way, there’s no record to be found of J.D. Vance denigrating her, or spreading false information about her. He has more class than that.
It must be remembered that a Vice President is limited in his role. He is a ‘second chair’ to the President’s lead. It should also be noted that at this time, Vice President Vance has just started in the role and will, like any other person, require time and experience to grow in that position.
Very recently, Vance was heavily criticized by the liberal media for his speech before the Munich Security Conference.
Of course, his words were not the expected promises and platitudes that our European allies are used to. But that doesn’t mean they were of no value, or that they were not in at least some ways an accurate appraisal of the current situation in the world and in Europe.
Vance, in his address to the conference stated:
‘While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine – and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense.’
He criticized the member nations of the conference, saying:
‘The organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. Now, again, we don’t have to agree with everything or anything that people say. But when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them.’[6]
Are these statements deserving of hostile criticism, or careful unbiased analysis?
Without the support of American money and the American military, does any thinking person believe that Western Europe would have been free from Soviet aggression during the Cold War? Does any knowledgeable person believe that but for the United States, Western Europe would already be speaking Russian as a ‘national’ language?
According to the think tank RAND, the US contributes forty seven percent of the NATO defense budget.[7] Perhaps, the other member nations might pick up the slack.
As far as parties which were banned from the conference, ‘The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the newly formed left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) were barred from the Munich Security Conference (MSC).’[8]
So, Vance’s statement was accurate. Both of the above statements were accurate — just not popular among the attendees.
It is also no surprise with respect to the criticism his statements received. ‘During the past decade, Europe’s political, intellectual and cultural establishment has shown little restraint when it came to venting its disdain for President Donald Trump and Americans who support him and his policies.’
This observation was made in a February 16, 2025 article in the Jewish News Syndicate, by Jonathan Tobin.[9]
Tobin further observed, ‘Vance is also being widely denounced for his temerity in calling attention to how European democracies have discarded the basic values of democracy in order to silence views they oppose, as well as to how their policies threaten the survival of Western values.’
In his article, he recognized what many liberals do not, ‘The most pressing problem facing defenders of Western democracy comes from the censorious and anti-democratic forces that exist within the West.’[10]
Why You Should Care
The polarization of American politics has reached a level where rational thought, careful analysis of both sides of an issue is nigh impossible to achieve.
This is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. Instead of viewing the actions and words of a politician in the light of economic and political reality, opposing parties not currently in power, deem it their sworn duty to denigrate and demean their opponents, irrespective of facts, with no regard to history or the world’s current situation.
Vance, a newly elected Vice President has been victimized by this phenomenon.
It is incumbent on the intelligent American citizen to think beyond the rhetoric, to analyze beyond the character assassinations.
As a rational witness to the actions of those in power, and those who seek to regain the power they have lost, our American citizen must weigh the words, appraise the actions, and intelligently decide what we stand for, and what they themselves stand for.
[1] WIKIPEDIA, JD VANCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance
[2] Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s Statement on J.D. Vance’s Racist Lies, Pathetic Politics https://cherfilus-mccormick.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-sheila-cherfilus-mccormicks-statement-jd-vances-racist-lies
[3] IBID.
[4] Op.cit.
[5] US NEWS & WORLD REPORT https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/yale-university-03027#:~:text=Yale%20University%202024%20Law%20%26%20Specialties,196%20in%20Best%20Law%20Schools.
[6] JD VANCE’S FULL SPEECH ON THE FALL OF EUROPE, The Spectator, 2/14/25 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jd-vance-what-i-worry-about-is-the-threat-from-within/
[7] UNDERSTANDING AND OPOTIMIZING ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COLLECTIVE DEFENSE, 5/7/24 RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4189z1.html
[8] POLITICO, 2/3/25 CONFERENCE BANS GERMANY’S POPULIST LEFT AND RIGHT PARTIES, https://www.politico.eu/article/munich-security-conference-defense-ban-germany-populist-afd-bsw/
[9] JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE, 2/16/25, Tobin, Jonathan JD VANCE AND THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY https://www.jns.org/jd-vance-and-the-defense-of-democracy/
[10] IBID.