He's a neofeudalist reactionary. Whether he actually believes the fascist bullshit he says and does is irrelevant; he was bought by Peter Thiel because he is useful to the cause.

A roster of Vance’s YLS class might make you think the country’s run by an Ivy League cabal.

"Run" implies that these idiots have some kind of plan when they're pretty clearly just flailing through day to day, but otherwise no shit it is Vanity Fair, and fuck you for trying to downplay it

Also, the title is a reference to a book the author apparently expects us to be familiar with, which also sucks because the book in question is a dusty old piece of hateful garbage

Listen to a podcast about William F Buckley's God and Man at Yale or read an archived copy of a transcript.

Is god in the picture? Behind the tree perhaps?

Usha is a race traitor and a complete fucking idiot. The fact that she, as a person of color, is staying - and letting her kids stay - with a fascist politician who openly courts white supremacists genuinely beggars belief. She’s supposed to be an intelligent woman, but honestly… that’s not the choice of an intelligent and perceptive person. It’s self-delusion.

Behold that raw, animalistic sexual energy.

A power hungry cretin. That will fall to irrelevance if he's lucky, jail if the people are lucky or dead of his kids are lucky.

Or is the presumptive 2028 GOP frontrunner waiting for the chance to be his own man?

Like Kamala?