The very anti-Christian, anti-God, Comrade Amanda Marcotte of Salon cannot help herself. It’s a compulsion of hers, really, to go after Conservatives who quote the Bible or claim religious faith of any kind.

Which is why she is swinging hard at JD Vance and his latest memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith”. She says the book and the upcoming tour “illustrates why his hope for the 2028 Presidential nomination is fading”.

Why? Well, according to Marcotte, Vance credits Erika Kirk, who is “even more hated” than her deceased husband. Way to champion women here, Mandy. Trash a widow. Classy.

In it, Vance credits Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk — who is even more hated than her dead husband — for convincing his wife, Usha Vance, to have a fourth child. No, it’s 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 ‘Erika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only two kids with Charlie,’ and that’s what changed his wife’s mind.

It’s hard to oversell how nauseating the entire excerpt is, especially since it’s replete with Vance’s overbearing efforts to inject religious language into every beat of his story about his allegedly great friendship with Kirk.

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?”-Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Kirk is old news, she says. A man who was shot in cold blood is old news, she says. Imagine if someone on this side said that about Renee Good. What gets me here is Marcotte’s impression that Vance is obsessed with getting his wife pregnant and, yes, her creepy obsession with Usha Vance. She refers to Usha Vance as if does not have a mind of her own in this relationship of theirs. This, also from Vance’s latest, not quoted by Marcotte. Vance was confiding with a classmate about the crush he had on his then future wife:

She doesn’t even walk like normal people. Normal girls seem kind of unstable in high heels. Not her. She glides across the room in whatever shoes she wears. And her laugh, man. Whenever she laughs it’s, like, the most wonderful thing. She’s super reserved, but she has this chortle that is the best sound I’ve ever heard.

Usha and I found this laughable – that I would ever confide in this classmate, but more so that I was attracted to Usha’s ambition. There were many things that I thought were unusual about Usha when I first met her. One is that she was intensely competitive, but I saw this as more bizarre than attractive. She was incapable of jealousy, something I assumed came from a supreme inner confidence. But when I asked her – she was more capable than any person I had ever met – what she wanted to do, I was shocked at how uninterested she was in traditional markers of success.”-JD Vance, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith

Marcotte basically reduced the Second Lady down to the VP’s trad wife. It’s a mean girl ploy to reduce a person who is highly stable and light years ahead in an intellectual sense. If this were a Democratic hopeful we were talking about here, the likes of Amanda Marcotte and her Salon colleagues would be all over Usha Vance. A daughter of physicists. Executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal, managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, and an editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review while she studied at Yale Law. She was an active participant in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, and the Pro Bono Network. Her lineage is of scholars and intellectuals from India. Marcotte should be freaking drooling. But instead, she chooses to focus on Usha as an afterthought, carrying the fourth child of a man she vehemently hates. She diminishes the incredible woman that Usha Vance is to an afterthought, living in her husband’s shadow who should divorce him and not have his fourth child. Usha Vance certainly isn’t an afterthought in JD’s book:

Everyone else was like a dim light bulb set against Usha’s radiance. My feelings for her overrode every instinct and everything I thought I knew about women. “Play hard to get” was something young men told one another about attracting the opposite sex. But instead, I told Usha before we ever dated that I was in love with her. “Don’t come on too strong” was another adage of dating I had learned from the world, but we had been together only a few weeks when I told her I wanted to marry her and would do whatever I needed to do to make that happen.

Her life was the most interesting thing in the world. Politics, technology, business – these were professional interests, things I read about and wanted to work on. But Usha was the only one for whom I’d ever felt real passion.”-JD Vance, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith

Read those above excerpts and there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that JD Vance is crazy about his wife and holds her in high regard. But leave it to the petty liberals to pick this apart. Hug Gate with Ericka Kirk, the “most hated woman in the world”. Epstein. His conversion to Catholicism and urging the Pope to stay out if foreign affairs. All while serving under Trump-the great, orange terror.

They celebrate the Muslim as Mayor of New York City, but there's a problem with a Catholic?
Wonder why ratings are falling?https://t.co/0TDbCyFnAF

— Tom_In_Florida (@Tom_In_Florida) June 15, 2026

The excerpt below illustrates how JD and Usha Vance navigate an inter-faith marriage. Again, not something Amanda Marcotte chooses to discuss here but something that, I would think, would also be looked upon as favorable in liberal circles. They love interracial marriages. They love same-sex marriages. They love marriages between two people who cannot figure out what gender they are day-to-day…

Marcotte says his interview scheduled for The View is “desperate”…but is it? I hope he owns them.

But the odds are equally good that instead of looking ‘tough’ against a panel of women, he just comes across as pouty when he, inevitably, gets pissy about whatever issue they press him on. Vance can’t help himself. No matter how many conversion memoirs he writes, he will always be the same annoying little brat.”-Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Whatever issues they, the uninformed, press on him. There, fixed it for you. Thanks, Mandy. You just sold a book for JD! Because we all know no matter how many anti-Christian, TDS-ridden, insulting diatribes YOU write for Salon, YOU will always be the same pissy, annoying little brat.

Dim bulbs? The only dim bulb here is Amanda Marcotte.

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