"Usha Vance is a very clever woman with terrible taste in men. The Yale and Cambridge-educated lawyer quit her job at a prestigious DC firm the same day her husband was picked to be Donald Trump's running mate. She trailed after him on the campaign trail, smiling for the cameras. A former Democrat, she aligned herself with Trump, a man her husband once called America's Hitler."
"JD, by the way, used to be an atheist, then converted to Catholicism in 2019, saying he really liked that the Catholic church was just really old. JD's comments about Usha's Hinduism received a lot of backlash, including from a rightwing Canadian commentator who posted (then deleted): it's weird to throw your wife's religion under the bus, in public, for a moment's acceptance by groypers."
"You know what seems disgusting, JD: saying that you hope the woman you married in a Christian-Hindu ceremony abandons something apparently important to her. Usha Vance is no victim. She's ambitious and a major force in JD's meteoric rise. She's just as implicated in America's slide towards autocracy and embrace of bigotry as he is. Still, you have to wonder if she has moments of doubt."
Usha Vance left a prestigious legal job the day her husband became Donald Trump's running mate and accompanied him on the campaign trail. She shifted from being a Democrat to aligning with Trump despite her husband once calling Trump "America's Hitler." She now benefits from taxpayer-funded residences and private travel tied to her husband's status. The vice-president publicly expressed hope that she would convert from Hinduism to Christianity, prompting backlash. The vice-president converted to Catholicism in 2019 and defended responses to critics as anti-Christian bigotry. Usha Vance is portrayed as ambitious and complicit in a political shift toward autocracy and bigotry, though she has not adopted some conspicuous Trump-era cultural markers.
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