It was an unusually blunt intervention, even by the standards of America's increasingly combustible political discourse. On a quiet Sunday, with Washington still parsing the aftershocks of US strikes on Iran, a conservative commentator took to social media with a suggestion that felt less like analysis and more like a dare.
'My advice to Vance: announce your support of 25th amendment transition,' wrote Scott McConnell, founding editor of The American Conservative. The post did not hedge. It did not soften its edges. It went further—naming a potential Democratic vice-president, Senator Chris Murphy, and urging JD Vance to declare he would not run in 2028.
