He is NOT well educated. He is opportunistically credentialed. He is the modern day Frank Abagnale of politics. I wouldn’t recommend having him fly your jet or give you your angioplasty.

Yes. Still, the great imposter, Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., as performed by Tony Curtis, had a flair about him that JD Vance does not even approach. That film really impressed me when I first saw it in the early 1960's. I expect Abagnale knew how to sell himself as well. Vance is a mystery.

In your honor, sir: “I shall arise and go now, and go to Innisfree. And a small cabin build there, of Clay and Wattles made . . .” Good name for a law firm—Clay & Wattles—don’t you think? If not, mull it a bit. It might grow on you. Or maybe a home construction firm?😘 (Source WB Yeats, 1888)

OTOH in middle school and high school I was trolled with the definition found in the big library dictionary on a stand: "Wattlebird: 1. any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck. Called the ugliest bird in the world."

Public school is a tax-funded system of hazing & harassment to prepare students for what they can expect from American culture beyond the schoolyard fence. At least now. Many decades ago, it might have different. I wouldn’t know.🤷🏼‍♀️

I apologize if my citation from a beautiful & much-loved poem by the great Irish poet re-traumatized you. I intended it as an homage & regret if it was received quite otherwise.😔

OH no. I would frequently re-educate the people teasing me explain that the name first was that of an adopted father and second had its source as a well known trade in England and Wales for turning branches into fences or roofs. Ha ha.

If he has a soul he is a fallen Catholic as of the moment he became one and you just might be right. Maybe he just beats it about masochistically. Saw a man from Ethiopia on his knees whipping himself in front of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre after dragging a large wooden cross through Jerusalem