Posted on 07/17/2024 3:27:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At the outset of Christopher Marlowe’s late 16th-century play “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus,” the scholar at the center of the tale abandons all the learning he has mastered. Law, philosophy, medicine — none of these have fulfilled his boundless ambition. Instead, he turns to magic, making the fateful decision to sell his soul to the demon Mephistopheles, for what he “most desires” — “a world of profit and delight, /Of power, of honor.”
That brand of striving, so strong that it compels Faustus to sell what is most essential to him, must lie somewhere in the makeup of Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, who on Monday was offered and accepted the invitation to be Donald Trump’s running mate. What he has renounced in the process is in the public record for all to see.
Eight years ago, during the heated days of the 2016 Republican primary, Mr. Vance wrote that Mr. Trump’s policy proposals “range from immoral to absurd.” A few months later, he referred to Mr. Trump as “cultural heroin,” and called him “unfit for our nation’s highest office.” And memorably, in a text conversation with a former roommate, the future senator worried that Mr. Trump might be “America’s Hitler.”
After Monday’s announcement, of course, Mr. Vance distanced himself from those comments. Mr. Trump’s White House tenure, he said, had changed his mind, but it’s hard to take the senator entirely at his word.
Certainly, all politicians are ambitious — and many of them are cynical. But there is something particularly noxious about Mr. Vance’s posturing, which exceeds the run-of-the-mill Machiavellian self-interestedness that characterizes politics. The Faustian contract seems to have already been drawn up and signed.
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Contrasted with Kamala, who has no soul . . .
Boy, the mainstream anti-American globalist media sure have their long knives out for Vance.
Duly noted.
They would have gone after whoever Donald Trump chose to be his VP no matter what.
They have to be a bit restrained in their Trump attacks for a few days so Vance gets the full treatment.
I think it was MSNBC that slandered the speakers last night as a line of people selling their souls to support Trump.
Disgusting attack.
If someone changes on their side (as Kamala calling Biden a KKK supporting pal of ex Klansmen in DC and an opponent of busing and civil rights, while running for the presidential nomination) then they only like their side doing it.
Always judge the quality of somebody by how much liberals hate them.
New York Times hates him, Kinzinger and Cheney hate him. Romney hates him...
The boy is looking good to me. And besides, I am not aware of any enlisted man being a President or Veep. Only Zeroes have done that. And the first Marine also.
First Marine, first enlisted.
Ed Simon sounds like another one of Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyy’s retarded carney barkers.
They destroyed Palin within 48 hours and she never recovered and McCain never had a chance. Vance is no Palin and Trump isn’t McCain.
The left’s slime machine is fully operational.
Oh, the hypocrisy! The NYT knows that no politicians has “sold his soul” more than their boy Joe BribedHim.
and worked her way to the top by staying on her knees.
Kamala sold something else…
all the right enemies
go Jimmy D!
Yeah, but McCain’s own people helped…
If the NYT hates him, I like him.
Heroes of the NYT... Stalin. Hitler. Castro. Pol Pot. Ho Chi Minh. Gorbachev. Kruschev. Hugo Chavez....
Has there been a murderous commie they haven’t liked?
Sure, I want to read lengthy discussion of Faustus and Mephistopheles (sp) before they get to anything about Vance.
Besides being scumbags, can anyone write anything and get to the point these days?
A NYT ‘journalist’ writes about selling their soul?
Bwahahahahaha!
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