Vice President JD Vance spent weeks trying to quietly signal his opposition to the Iran war through anonymous leaks, according to Salon writer Amanda Marcotte. And it has made his situation considerably worse. What began as a behind-the-scenes effort to protect his political standing has instead pulled him deeper into a conflict he never wanted.
Amanda Marcotte argued on Monday that Vance saw the Iran war coming and understood the damage it could cause. Not out of principled opposition to the conflict, but out of political self-preservation. 'At 41, the vice president has enough wits about him to see what was very obvious, something the Trump has refused to see: that this war would be a political debacle for the administration — and for Vance's future plans to run for president,' Marcotte wrote.
