I would like to apologize to JD Vance. He is not, it turns out, the weirdest member of Trump’s reelection campaign. That is all still true. Vance has, to be fair, found a foothold: He speaks to the mainstream press and defends whatever lie that the Trump campaign is pushing that week—and, in many cases, he does this by openly admitting that it’s a lie, as happened when he and Trump began pushing a racist rumor that legal Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Vance is like