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JD Vance’s Dirty America
Why Vance is unfit to take over the GOP after Trump is gone
It’s become exhausting keeping track of all of the xenophobic rhetoric that comes out of the administration’s mouth, but one JD Vance line caught my attention recently.
On September 10, 2026, at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Vance with a smirk on his face essentially said that Brown immigrants make America dirty:
“Two years ago, we have to remember — our nation, ladies and gentlemen, was tired. We were tired of seeing the cartels and the criminals given free rein over our great country. And we were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.”
First, we know Vance was exaggerating and cartels had not taken over America. Or that America wasn’t prosperous because of immigrants. That’s silly.
But more importanlty, we’re not stupid. Everyone knows what Vance meant.
Had the administration, two years ago, just focused on the minority of criminals among undocumented immigrants and sent them away like all prior administrations had done, we could have a discussion.
Had the administration made people who came here without permission go through normal legal processes rather…
