Obama Spots The Deep 'Hypocrisy' In JD Vance's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

“Listen, hypocrisy is progress,” the former president also pointed out.

Former President Barack Obama is calling out Vice President JD Vance for his nativist, anti-immigrant rhetoric – but also offered a tiny sliver of hope.

Speaking with author Malcolm Gladwell for a podcast interview on Thursday, Obama noted that “we’ve been having the same arguments” about who should be considered a “real” American since the end of the Civil War.

He then pointed out the irony of Vance spreading white nationalist-coded rhetoric about birthright citizenship while married to the daughter of Indian immigrants.

“At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people,” Obama noted to Gladwell.

“When you have the vice president – the current vice president – making a........

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