As I’ve noted before, Vance’s real job in the administration is to be the chief ideologist of MAGA. That is, he has to take Trump’s arbitrary and often contradictory impulses and reverse engineer them into a coherent whole. It’s a tough task.
Possibly even more than Trump himself, Vance has built his political identity around avoiding foreign wars and regime change. What will he say about Iran? Will he simply lie and say the Iranians were about to build and deploy an ICBM capable of reaching America? Will he say Middle East wars and regime change are ok if we just do lots of damage from the air and leave the country in a physical and political shambles, with no improvement in sight? Will he say the Israelis made us do it?
I can’t wait to hear the answer.