The Best Worst Takes on the Debate

After political debates, a few sage writers take a victory lap to celebrate their accurate predictions. Many readers visited the National Review live blog yesterday to read astute commentary, but I’m here to provide an alternative. Below is a list of some of the worst reactions on social media to last night’s VP debate. It will provide some insight into how the other side thinks — or, more accurately, how they fail to do so. 

• “There’s something oily about describing your kids, every time, as ‘beautiful.’”
• “JD Vance talking over the female moderators. We women have all been there. Overtalked by an entitled mansplainer.”
• “Leave it to the football coach to win the game in the 4th quarter with nothing left on the clock. #VPDebate2024”
• “upsetting to me that J.D. Vance is actually a good orator here. he’s not coming across as the fascist weirdo he is”
• “tim walz has convinced me that minnesota is significantly better than most other places in the nation. dont know what this means for the national race.”
• “It’s really interesting that you can tell the people who are only in it for the optics are loving captain eyeliner. People who like facts are loving Walz.”
• “Shout out to white men, who have been absolved of any political responsibility in this presidential election. Cause no matter how this election turns out, nobody is going to blame you. I stan.”
• “You could tell Vance was having a hard time hating him. He’s just so damn earnest.”
• “JD Vance was picked to make fascism sound reasonable.”
• “tim walz really just threw away all potential goodwill with anti-genocide progressives across the country in order to win a pro israel pissing contest with the couch sex guy”
• “JD Vance never lost that snotty little half-smile—the expression of a used car salesman who just convinced a potential buyer that the CHECK ENGINE light on the used Toyota he’s trying to get off the lot is a computer glitch.”
• “The federal land that @JDVance is talking about that’s indigenous land.”
• “I wonder if we can coin a new term #Vancesplaining”
• “The Trump/Vance housing proposals are just naziism”
• “‘Mass deportation to ease demand’ is one of those phrases that you really have to hear in the original German”
• “The two women in charge of this debate telling Vance his time was up and him simply ignoring them, talking over them, and disrespecting them is the most revealing part of this debate so far.”
• “‘Vance looks like the guy you casually keep your hand over your drink while he tries to impress you about crypto at the bar.’ — my wife as she walked out of room”
• “Every woman on earth felt that ‘thank you for describing the legal process’ in her bones.”
• “Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist. Saying ‘illegal alien’ is racist.”
• “Walz was earnest, bumbling, had some good moments — but overall underwhelming. Vance is a terrifyingly sociopathic fascist — Trump’s vampiric best boy.”
• “Vance earned a degree in implementing fascism. He’s Putin’s go to guy when Trump is in prison or in a funny farm”
• “Vance seems like he saw the fascist ‘commander’ on A Handmaid’s Tale and said, ‘yep, that guy seems cool — that’s the look and vibe I’m going for!'”
• “Walz won. He’s kind. He didn’t talk over 2 women. He defended democracy. He didn’t lie.”