{"id":431,"date":"2026-06-15T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:09:20","slug":"jd-vances-sad-book-tour-shows-why-his-2028-hopes-are-fading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance\u2019s sad book tour shows why his 2028 hopes are fading"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JD Vance is famously addicted to social media, to a degree that one wonders if he has any job duties as vice president at all. It\u2019s almost certain that he\u2019s well aware that the late Charlie Kirk has not become the movement martyr MAGA hoped for. On the contrary, the memory of the Turning Point USA founder has become a joke on social media. The cringeworthy efforts to deify Kirk are irresistible bait for online jokesters, who spent months turning his image and even an AI-generated song about him into fuel for irony-drenched memes mocking the deceased right-wing leader. Trying to shove Kirk on the public backfired for MAGA, causing most people to rebel with mockery.<\/p>\n

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But even though most Republicans have quietly moved on, Vance is still hoping to get enough juice out Kirk\u2019s death to sell books. In early June, the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from Vance\u2019s latest memoir, \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,\u201d which is officially released tomorrow. In it, Vance credits Kirk\u2019s widow, Erika Kirk \u2014 who is even more hated than her dead husband \u2014 for convincing his wife, Usha Vance, to have a fourth child. No, it\u2019s not as a response to the embarrassingly intimate hug Erika Kirk and JD Vance shared at a TPUSA event last November, despite online gossip speculating otherwise. Instead, the vice president claims \u201cErika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only two kids with Charlie,\u201d and that\u2019s what changed his wife\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to oversell how nauseating the entire excerpt is, especially since it\u2019s replete with Vance\u2019s overbearing efforts to inject religious language into every beat of his story about his allegedly great friendship with Kirk. It\u2019s hard to read sentences like, \u201cCharlie taught me to love all parts of our Christian communion,\u201d while imagining Vance\u2019s voice, especially as his only gear as a public speaker is to use a snide tone, even when talking about his supposed higher aspirations. But these are granular annoyances. The real question is why did Vance choose a passage about Kirk, who is beyond old news, as a represenation of a book people are supposed to want to buy now?<\/p>\n