Personally I think vance is so deeply unpopular that even if he's "Smart evil" he's not nearly smart enough to capture the MAGA cult that exists around trump.

Which means WHEN, not if, he does something fucking stupid, the maga crowd won't make the same excuses for him that they will for trump.

Then the entire party implodes. The cult fractures, republicans scramble, and we all laugh.

Vance is an opportunist. He does or says whatever he needs to say. For example, In 2016, he was a "never Trump guy"

It means that he'll suck up to whoever he needs to suck up to in order to advance his own interests. His spinelessness is how he managed to get where he is.

With Trump's midterm implosion, an opportunist is free to attack Trump era policies. He can potentially thread the needle. He can argue that as VP, his job was to support the president's agenda wholeheartedly, even if he disagreed with it. He can point to his 2016 "never Trump" creds to show that he didn't think Trump was right for office, but that the public disagreed, and supporting the will of the electorate was more important than his personal beliefs.

Now that the public has turned so hard against Trump, Vance can claim he is now obligated to act in accordance to his constituents.

Opportunist doesn't necessarily mean "truly evil". The only people around for him to suck up to will be blue, or out of power.

I do. It takes a special kind of dumb to do this much damage to the country. Where's he gonna go when he's done?

I don't trust Vance, but all I really know about him is that he'll lie for power. He could turn out to be relatively fine.