The Trump and Vance show

JD Vance has come full circle and is now nearly at the top of the tree. From a fervent Never Trumper he is today a fervent Always Trumper. The road to Damascus is heavily crowded with people like Vance who see the light or in his case sees which way the political wind is blowing and jumps ship to the winner-takes-all leader. There's not much point in being an ambitious Republican politician and not being a Trumper. Vance realised this and is now so MAGA-orientated he is almost even more Trump than Trump. This, of course, is what Trump wants. He wants to do his four years in the White House and then hand over to somneone who will pledge to continue the MAGA ideology. Vance was the only short-list candidate who could guarantee that. So now it's the Trump-Vance show heading remorselessly towards the White House in November. Why Vance calls himself JD Vance is a mystery but he obviously likes it. But JD stands for James David, two perfectly good and ordinary names, so why stick with the initials? I bet it annoys Trump. He didn't like Vance's beard when he was considering his running-mate candidates. But Vance didn't shave it off and still calls himself JD. The Biden-Kamala Harris combination looks pretty mild and bland compared with these two. The election is a done deal!