This week, the internet dusted off a forgotten JD Vance clip from CNN, back when he was just a senator. A year later, it still plays like an unintentional audition tape for hypocrisy. But we’re only now that realizing it was always this obvious.
The clip comes from Vance’s interview with Kaitlan Collins on CNN, during the height of nationwide campus protests over Gaza. Back then, Republicans were aggressively demanding arrests, expulsions, and harsher policing of demonstrators. So, Collins asked Vance the obvious questions about protest movements, criminal accountability, and the limits of free speech.
