Of Canoes & Caesars: JD Vance’s Imperial Birthday Float

Of Canoes & Caesars: JD Vance’s Imperial Birthday Float

We are now a nation governed not by leaders, but by increasingly cartoonish simulations animated more by vanity than virtue, more by stagecraft than statecraft. And there is no better mascot for this decline and rot than Vice President J.D. Vance, the Appalachian Horatio Alger turned Beltway embarrassment. In his latest escapade, Vance demanded river waters rise. Yes, the VP—whom the Almighty (clearly in jest) saw fit to give ambition and a memo…