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Senator and now vice-president-elect JD Vance did not hesitate to give a moral lesson on X by quoting a serial killer from American literature.
UNITED STATES – A good omen for the coming mandate. Donald Trump was widely elected as the 47th President of the United States. Ohio Senator JD Vance, whom he had designated as his running mate, will take the vice-presidency of the country during the inauguration next January. The latter wanted to give a lesson in common sense to his followers on X Friday November 8, without hesitating to evoke the words of a serial killer character from literature and cinema.
“One of the most important skills I see in successful people (and good people) is to constantly re-evaluate assumptions,” wrote Kamala Harris' successor on X. Concretely? People with preconceived notions that Donald Trump was going to lose the race for the White House should question other assumptions they have about the New York billionaire. JD Vance then adds : “And to quote Cormac McMcarthy: if the rule you followed led you to this, what good did that rule do? ».
Except that Trump's running mate is wrong. It's not Cormac McCarthy, the author of No this country is not for the old manwho pronounces this sentence but one of the characters in this novel: Anton Chigurh, a serial killer. In the film adapted for the cinema by the Coen brothers in 2007, Javier Bardem plays him.
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The rhetoric of the psychopathic killer
As stated in the HuffPost USthis sentence is pronounced by the dark character just before he kills another protagonist of the novel, with a gunshot. Not really enough to reassure voters. Anton Chigurh is a psychopathic hitman: he murders for money, but also because he is convinced that he is an agent of destiny and that the victims caused their own death by crossing his path. A not really convincing way of justifying the murders.
Still, JD Vance wants to prove that everyone can change their mind, and should revise his opinion of Donald Trump: “Maybe the people who misled you about his electoral chances misled you about other things”says the senator, elected to Congress in 2022. One way to follow his example. Because if JD Vance is now at the forefront of the MAGA movement, a few years ago, during Donald Trump's first term, he did not hesitate to call the latter a “America’s Hitler”.
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