J. D. Vance is the future of MAGA

Few would deny that the Vice-President is now the overwhelming favourite to succeed Donald Trump.

The vice-presidency of the United States has always been the butt of jokes. ‘I don’t plan to be buried until I’ve died,’ quipped Daniel Webster when he declined William Henry Harrison’s offer of the role. John Nance Garner, who served as FDR’s vice-president, dismissed it as ‘not worth a bucket of warm piss’. Even John Adams, the first to hold the office, was equivocal: ‘I am Vice-President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything.’

That ‘everything’ has proven elusive. Fewer than a third of vice-presidents have gone on to occupy the Oval Office and only four have won the presidential election while vice-president: Adams in 1797, Jefferson in 1801, Martin Van Buren in 1837 and George H.W. Bush in 1988. Yet few people would deny that J.D. Vance, the 40-year-old Vice-President-elect who will be inaugurated on Monday, is now not only the overwhelming favourite for …

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