Vance is posing as a chivalrous defender of his wife. What he’s hiding are the craven compromises he’s made with the racist and white nationalist elements within the MAGA coalition.
El-Sayed’s comment was a response to that. His claim is that if Vance’s Papaw would have seen a Muslim candidate in the bigoted terms that Vance articulated—as inherently posing a threat to “working people”—then he also might have seen Usha Vance in a similar way.
As a immigrant that grew up in the same Midwest environment, there’s no might.
As a immigrant that grew up in the same Midwest environment, there’s no might.