As the final weeks of the election have become a race for women’s votes, we have met a new JD Vance. The once-sarcastic defender against a nation run by “childless cat ladies” has been replaced with a man with a softer side. Recently, Vance has described being a working mom as “extraordinarily difficult ,” empathized with “an African-American woman ” who caught sidelong glances as she rode the train with her preschoolers, and opened up about how he wishes he had been parented. This new Vance is