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It ends:
"J. D. Vance may well become the next vice president, and given Trump’s age, he might even make it to the Oval Office. But after describing Trump as “cultural heroin,” Vance himself has now become a kind of cheap high, a transient buzz designed to narcotize the people he is betraying. He can ask us to believe he has changed his mind, and that is his right—but he can never again ask anyone to take him seriously."
It ends:
"J. D. Vance may well become the next vice president, and given Trump’s age, he might even make it to the Oval Office. But after describing Trump as “cultural heroin,” Vance himself has now become a kind of cheap high, a transient buzz designed to narcotize the people he is betraying. He can ask us to believe he has changed his mind, and that is his right—but he can never again ask anyone to take him seriously."