EXCERPT:
VANCE: “So, Jessica, I don’t think that’s right. Why does that need to be true, that if your party’s out of power, you should have less pride in your country? Like, I guarantee that when Barack Obama was president or Joe Biden was pretending to be president, that you had Republicans who still said they’re proud of America, they’re proud of our military. They’re proud of the great people of our country. They’re proud of our natural beauty. Like, it says, I think 29 percent of Americans — of Democrats are proud of their country. I assume that includes you, even though you disagree with the present administration. So, what seems to me so bizarre about this is that we’ve allowed a culture to develop where people feel like the country is the country’s politics. And I think that’s like, that’s actually connected to the violent rhetoric where if you disagree with somebody, you can justify killing them. It’s really, really a bad thing. I wish Democrats, all of them, were proud of our country. We should be proud of our country.”
