The vice presidency has long been the booby prize of American politics. 'My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived,' America's first vice president, John Adams, lamented to his wife in 1793. J. D. Vance has been in office for only 48 days, but he has already found a better use for the largely ceremonial post than many of his predecessors: posting constantly on social media. Since being sworn in, Vance has opined more than 120 times on X, with some of his missives running hundreds of words long. He has engaged in detailed policy debates, promoted his political allies, and dunked on his critics. Watching the veep unfurl his latest novella on Elon Musk's platform, many of his progressive critics have smirked: Doesn't he have better things to do' But mocking Vance's social-media habit misses its significance. As the sidekick of a president who charts his own idiosyncratic course, the...
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