Is JD Vance Faking It?

The liberal establishment keeps having this happen to them where it's like they just keep stepping on the same fucking rake. They embraced a conservative opportunist who is now moving with the winds of Republican politics. He wasn't doing weird culture war shit about gender ideology in 2016 because the Republican base wasn't fixated on it, right? The liberals who are saying like, well, we think he changed, they're letting themselves off the hook a bit, right? But he's been a reactionary the whole time.