Alex Wagner: J.D. Vance Wanting To Be Buried In Family Plot An 'Easter Egg' Of White Nationalism

Posted • July 19, 2024: After vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance gave his acceptance speech Wednesday night, MSNBC's Alex Wagner noted that you didn't see the "read meat, blood and soil nationalism" that you might hear in Republican National Conventions in a parallel universe. But there were "easter eggs." Conspiracy theorist Joy Reid of course ate this up. Vance in his speech mentioned his burial plot in Kentucky and said he'd like to be laid to rest there one day along with six other generations of Vances. Wagner took this to mean he wanted to carry on the Kentucky legacy, not the San Franciscan history of his wife. "America doesn't always have to be the white male lineage that defines the family history."

Wagner was really overthinking this with too little brainpower behind it. MSNBC Host Calls JD Vance Wanting to Be Buried in Family Plot an 'Easter Egg of White Nationalism.' -- So wanting to be buried in your family's burial plot reveals a lot about what Vance thinks about the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity. What if he'd said he wanted to be buried in San Francisco, where his wife is from? MSNBC would still find a problem with it. Vance having a wife with Indian immigrant parents really throws these people for a loop. (…)

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