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JD Vance’s sad book tour shows why his 2028 hopes are fading

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17.06.2026

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JD Vance’s sad book tour shows why his 2028 hopes are fading

In "Communion," the vice president assumes people still care about Charlie Kirk

Published June 15, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)

JD Vance is famously addicted to social media, to a degree that one wonders if he has any job duties as vice president at all. It’s almost certain that he’s well aware that the late Charlie Kirk has not become the movement martyr MAGA hoped for. On the contrary, the memory of the Turning Point USA founder has become a joke on social media. The cringeworthy efforts to deify Kirk are irresistible bait for online jokesters, who spent months turning his image and even an AI-generated song about him into fuel for irony-drenched memes mocking the deceased right-wing leader. Trying to shove Kirk on the public backfired for MAGA, causing many people to rebel with mockery.

Most Republicans have quietly moved on, but Vance is still hoping to get enough juice out of Kirk’s death to sell some books. In early June, the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from Vance’s latest memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” which is officially released this week. In it,........

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