Vance is filled with pathological self-loathing that he wants to inflict on everyone as a kind of punishment for making him feel this way.

He blames the country for his mother’s dysfunction and the way it ruined his childhood, and relishes the thought of making others feel the way he did.

Think he blames his mom because she didn’t achieve like him. The book was his airing of grievances against her. Some friends touted the book as a way to understand Trump voters. I thought it showed Vance as the whining pouty child he is - describes MAGATs perfectly! Friends were right!

It’s that and a classic bad dad/no dad i must dominate others to account for my feelings of helplessness

weird how these guys *all* had bad/absent dads

back in childhood summers out at the beach I watched the PBS series "The American President" on VHS and I used to joke that every time they skipped back to the section on childhood it began "his father was a cold, distant, and demanding man"

And just think, these are the guys telling us how we should raise our boys.

Gotta fill that dad-shaped hole. Him and Joe Rogan should get a room.

It’s time to explain to everyone what a Manchurian Candidate is and how JD is that man.

He knows he’ll never be good enough for the rich guys who paid for his entry He’ll never be one of them, always on the outside, forever the dogsbody who himself is told to be grateful for what he’s been given Because it came be taken away at any time

I come back to this again and again, Vance went to Yale Law, he could have done absolutely anything he wanted, and he has chosen... this.

Trump has a serious personality disorder, Vance has chosen to develop one to get ahead, which is just vastly more heinous.

The Know Your Enemy pod on Vance covered this, his choosing, so well.