JD Vance: Loud and rising

Obnoxiously ubiquitous: Vance is on fire as Trump’s ‘heat-seeking rhetorical missile’, says the writer. — AFP/Getty Images/TNS

JD VANCE, it seems, is everywhere.

Berating Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Eulogising Charlie Kirk. Babysitting the Middle East peace accord. Profanely defending the aquatic obliteration of (possible) drug smugglers.