JD Vance Is on a Hell of a Losing Streak |
JD Vance Is on a Hell of a Losing Streak
The vice president just had his worst week in politics: rallying with a losing candidate in Hungary, then overseeing the failed negotiations over the Iran war. What new misery awaits him?
Has anyone in the history of the world failed in more geographically disparate places in as short a time as JD Vance? Over the course of less than a week, the vice president traveled from Washington, D.C., to Budapest, Hungary, to Islamabad, Pakistan—a journey of roughly 7,500 miles—to be spectacularly humiliated. He returns to D.C. a truly defeated man—perhaps the Trump administration’s most defeated man, which is no mean feat when your boss is losing a pointless, reckless war that has accomplished nothing but skyrocketing gas prices.
Let’s check the scoreboard. One week ago, Vance flew to Hungary to help out his pal Viktor Orbán, the authoritarian, pro-Russian politician who was running for a fourth term as president amid growing opposition to his quasi-dictatorial reign. Vance’s appearance at an Orbán rally broke with long-standing precedent. “American presidents and vice presidents have seldom intervened so overtly in foreign elections,” wrote Isaac Stanley-Becker in The Atlantic. But Vance was........