Since Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate, Democrats have been eagerly digging up every remark he’s ever said, looking for phrases to distort and take out of context. They’ve pounced on statements he’s made praising women for choosing to have children, trying to use it as a wedge issue to alienate career women.

But there’s not actually a conflict. Everyone knows that children bring parents joy. Everyone knows that children turn out better on average if a parent at home is raising them — even better if homeschooled. You can be a career woman and admit this; there is no contradiction.

During a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance said that people run the U.S., including "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too." He criticized people without children running the country since they “don't really have a direct stake in it.”

In an interview with American Moment, Vance said, "You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle … instead of starting a family and having children.” He called the former a “path to misery.”

There is nothing wrong with either of those statements. We have all worked with an unhappy childless feminist who takes her rage out on the rest of her co-workers. A job that requires 90 hours a week working in a........

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