JD Vance has been taking flak for comments he made back in 2021, opining that politicians who don’t have kids aren’t fit to lead. Name checking Vice President Kamala Harris in the interview (along with others, including Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg), Vance bemoaned the sorry state of affairs in a country run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
Called to account for his quip, Vance isn’t backing down; he’s doubling down. First and foremost, Vance wants to make it clear that his problem isn’t with cats. It’s with childless people. The real question for him is: “How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
Answer: it makes about as much sense as JD Vance (along with legions of other male politicians) using their power to legislate away abortion rights.
If Vance wants a world in which policies are set by people with a “direct stake in it,” how about leaving reproductive health choices to people who can get pregnant?
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