Republican vice-presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks at a rally at trucking company Team Hardinger, on Aug. 28 in Erie, Penn.Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

J.D. Vance has had a rough ride since Donald Trump picked the Ohio Senator to be the Republican vice-presidential nominee. His conversion from a Never Trumper into full-blown MAGA disciple and his attack on the “childless cat ladies” atop the Democratic Party have earned him almost as much scorn and ridicule in the U.S. mainstream media as his top-of-the-ticket running mate – a forbiddingly high bar to approach.

Just this week, Mr. Vance faced a media pile-on after a video of his awkward interaction with a couple of doughnut-shop employees in Georgia went viral. If anything, Mr. Vance was sensitive to the employees’ reluctance to be used as political props. Most politicians in a similar situation would have just plowed ahead with their talking points. Yet, this brief encounter with a couple of unco-operative voters was construed by MSNBC as just another sign of Mr. Vance’s “weirdness.”

The incident is illustrative of a kind of obliviousness on the part of many Democrats and Democratic-friendly media to their own contemptuousness. If they keep it up, they just might succeed in........

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