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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has been selected as Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential race. Like many people, you might be wondering, “Who TF is J.D. Vance?” because he wasn’t a widely-known public figure before Trump made him his Mike Pence 2.0, or whatever. Republican voters didn’t even know much about the 39-year-old, who was once staunchly anti-Trump and has gone through multiple name changes, including his surname, which he adopted from his maternal grandparents—which brings us to another tidbit about Vance and his family: he’s married to an Indian woman, and some members of MAGA America are unhappy about it.
That’s right, Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, is the child of Indian immigrants, and, not only that, but J.D. and Usha gave all of their children traditional Indian names, which has the great replacement theorists and “Build That Wall” brigadiers all in a white nationalist frenzy.
Side Note:
(Has anybody checked on Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Byron Donalds? Because the GOP’s favorite “Amos ‘n’ Andy” upgrade was reportedly on the short list of potential running mates, and those two did a lot of shucking and jiving for a chance to be the Stephen to Trump’s Calvin Candie for them to both get passed up for some little-known white guy who has an Indian family and was once a “never Trumper” Republican called Trump and “idiot” and “reprehensible,” and compared him to Adolf Hitler. It’s like—how much tap dancing for white supremacy does a house slave have to do to get some recognition around here, amirite?)
But back to Usha. Here are MAGAts opinions for the world to see?
Here’s faithful white supremacist and “White Boy Summer” fanboy Nick Fuentes taking to his podcast to ask, “Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?” before adding a late disclaimer that he wasn’t being racist just because he’s essentially asking: “Hey, what gives with all the race-mixing and brown baby names? Where my real Caucasian families at?”
(SN: I would ask if anyone has checked on Vivek Ramaswamy, but since he let Ann Coulter be a racist-ass racist right to his face, saying she would never have voted for the former GOP candidate because “you’re Indian,” and basically responded, “Ahh well, we’re all entitled to our opinions,” I wouldn’t expect him to care much that his chosen party still hates non-white people with names like “Vivek.” Also, see Nikki “Nimarata” Haley.)
It’s worth mentioning that, on the other side of the political aisle, Usha is catching criticism for speaking at the Republican National Convention as one of the GOP’s token POCs to an audience that was holding up “SEND THEM BACK” and “MASS DEPORTATION NOW” signs.
Welp, guess you’re damned if you do white supremacy and damned if you don’t when you’re a diversity puppet for the “old white party.”
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