Vice President JD Vance speaks during a campaign rally in Sharonville, Ohio, on Wednesday.
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Americans have become plenty familiar with Machiavellian politics during the Donald Trump era. The president is certainly a practitioner, regularly ignoring morality, facts and the law in his pursuit of raw power and other goals.

And Vice President JD Vance is cut from the same cloth.

The main difference is that Vance will operate that way and then happily explain how that’s exactly what he’s doing.