What's worse than JD Vance promoting a racist conspiracy theory about immigrants eating pets? His woeful defense for why he did it.
It reminds me of the Jade Helm story from 2015: Republicans taking nonsense seriously because their base told them to. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/vance-offers-wrong-defense-promoting-ugly-misinformation-rcna170371
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