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On the Childless in Politics

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a news conference for a proposed Green New Deal on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., February 7, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Does it matter if people in politics, or who comment on politics, do not have children? J. D. Vance, the author and currently distant second-place challenger for the Republican nomination for next year’s Senate race in Ohio, has kicked up yet another kerfuffle with a Twitter potshot at Paul Krugman:

Vance then expanded this into a rant on Tucker Carlson Tonight:

We are run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest

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