The strange symbolism of JD Vance’s English holiday

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If there has been a lesson in this travel season, it is that you really, really don’t want to take a vacation near the Vice President JD Vance. Last month, Vance and his family went to Disneyland with their family, apparently, part of the park was closed as the Trump administration continued its full-scale immigration attack in the Los Angeles area. “Sorry, for everyone at Disneyland, the longer route,” said Vance’s new podcast hosted by Katie Miller, wife of White House Vice President Stephen Miller. “But we had a great time.” Earlier this month, the Army Corps of Engineers changed the outflow of Ohio Lakes to increase the river water level that Vance would row. source Tell guardian The change will create “ideal kayak conditions”, although the Secret Service said the purpose is to promote Vance’s safety details. Vance’s office denied advance knowledge. Miller asked Vance on the podcast if there was anything else. He replied: “Hope we can find some excuses to go to Hawaii as the Vice President of the United States.”

Last week, Vance and his travel circus visited him in the UK David LammyThe country’s Foreign Minister was at the latter’s residence in Kent, and then headed to the scenic Cotswolds west of London, which looked like what the AI Image Generator might spit out if you asked it to think of the English countryside. (If you’ve seen the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s thriving book “CompetitorsAccording to reports, “You get it. simile Agents to the “Black Man” scene, “this is a bit over.”) Jeremy Clarkson is the former host of Jeremy Clarkson – the recent car program “Top Gear,” who recently called Vance “Bured God Dod god-Botherer,” a silent area that is a light-free area that has prevented him from disturbing driverless people on a farm near him. This led to headlines claiming Clarkson’s “backlash” (even leadership) against Vance, despite his subsequent ridicule of the chaos by posting a video of a peaceful herder’s vision.

The Cotswolds are used to celebrities and residents: Clarkson, the starter, and Piers Morgan, Ellen DeGeneres and former British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has a home in the small village posted by Vance. (Kamala Harris also visited shortly before Vance.) Vance is not the first politician to drag his troubled hate vacation. But his travels were extremely troubled. Protesters gathered in local parks with signs such as “Cotswolds’ Cat Lady says go home” (waving, It is said thatby a woman who does have children and no cats),”War Criminals“and (my personal favorite)”JD Vance clapped his hands when the plane landed. A van shows Vance’s memes in a shiny bald head in the area, which tourists claim he was turned away for being on his phone. according to Report exist Observer and Wall Street Journalpolice officers go door to door, asking residents to identify themselves and disclose details of their social media accounts. To be fair, Vance recently warned the UK government not to continue the “very dark path” of online censorship. (His office denied any advance knowledge of social media doubts; a British police spokesman said that didn’t happen.)

If other silly stories about Vance vacation have a serious side, the destination he chose also has a strange symbolic meaning. The Cotswolds are richly linked to the veins of retreating upper-class conservatism around the world. In many ways, Vance’s rise has been a compelling manifestation of this retreat. But whether Vance left this politics entirely behind might be another matter.

For a human politician, Vance certainly seems to have a lot of holidays. If he is a British public official, Marina Hyde Point it correctly exist guardian Last week, “a few months ago he had installed a holiday-related nickname and no one would take him seriously.” (The “Vance-Cation” has a nice ring.) But, on his recent trip, he has also been involved in the political business. Meeting with the Central Foreign Minister Lammy, who has become friendly with Vance – which is impossible given the gap between their politics. It may help As politics explainLammy “let Vance beat him to fish” during Kent Sojourn; Vance’s children caught carp, and Rammy caught nothing. (Lammy obviously doesn’t have the necessary fishing license and has been reporting to the official regulators since then. Since Vance is online, he also met with Thomas Skinner, a candidate for the British version of “apprenticeship”, and now he seems to have spent a lot of time posting the term “bosh” on X. Vance. It’s a big week for Skinner: Yesterday, he was selected for the contestant by the British version of “Dancing with the Stars”.

In British political imagination, Cotswold had no connection to the wealth of the world, but was with people like Cameron, who was part of the “Crack Norton suit”, a town named after a ten-minute bolthole (more with cars with cars) that had a longer traffic. Shortly after Cameron took office, another member of the time, Rebekah Brooks became notorious shortly after Rupert Murdoch took office. (Brooks was acquitted and now works again for Murdoch.) Cameron regards himself as a modern man, passionate about eliminating the tenacious image of the Conservative Party – in a famous stunt show, he goes to the Arctic and embraces a stylish man to prove his environmental certificate – and serves as a promised internationalist. Indeed, he resigned as prime minister in 2016 after voters rejected his case of staying in the EU for Britain. Around the same time, he criticized Donald Trump’s proposed ban on travel to Muslims as “divisive, stupid and wrong.” Cameron wrote in his 2019 memoir that he was frustrated with Trump’s protectionist, xenophobic politics brand. His speech “can’t agree more”, Barack Obama warned that Trump’s rhetoric was a fantasy of demonizing “the whole country, race and religion.” The “Islamic terrorism” mentioned by Trump is sketchy and helpless.

Cameron’s school of conservatism seems to be dead now-in Vance’s hands. (Last year, Vance described Britain as the world’s first “Islamic State” armed with nuclear weapons.) Even inadvertently, his journey to the Cotswolds can be read, even dancing on the grave of this worldview. However, not long ago, Vance seemed to be politically closer to Cameron. Shortly after his 2016 memoir was released,Hillbilly Elegy“Vance sees Trump as “cultural heroin.” In the book, he also proposes cases of post-industrial and rural poverty It’s largely whiteRust Belt Community is partly due to insufficient personal and collective responsibility. These ideas echo the remarks Cameron used to sue what he believed was “breaking” British society. In 2016, George Osborne – Cameron’s Finance Minister, Supervision Procedures The fiscal austerity policy that crushed the UK Social Security Net is described as one of his annual books. Osborne said after reading that he had contacted Vance, who apparently praised the Cameron administration. These two men are still friends. according to Financial TimesIt was Osborne who grouped Vance’s accommodation before his trip to Cotswolds, and the two will be split this week.

Same as before Record it endlesslyVance has been in political development since 2016. Some aspects of his embrace of Trumpism, and his insistence on economic populism and anti-corporate posture, have made me a sincere person, and others are not that much. But if clearly seen through Vance’s political line, it is his meaning, and despite the different emphasis, his style (or at least allowed to be stereotyped) as the voice of poor and fallen masses, far from being far from the large coastal urban crowds. Regardless of Vance’s true view, this image is hard to get with government services that have just passed a massive tax cut, or to get special treatment on a leash trip. Like his Cotswold visit, it seems difficult to square.

It’s true in a sense, at least, as Cotswolds has become a playground in London’s Oélite, often without regard to hard crackble images. But there is poverty ThereIn rural areas where it is often less obvious, of course, if you stay in the countryside, take a tennis court, garden and orange. “There is real hardship and deprivation behind the media stories in the region, and the latest description of the region is clearly ‘Hamptons of England’” Tell telegrapha conservative British newspaper this week. 2013, reporters from New York following the phone hacking scandal era Visited the area and heard similar sounds. “It’s still a working-class town, a working-class bar, at least before “these tall Giles and Pippas appear.” Now, J.D. ♦