Vice President JD Vance has added a flatly segregationist twist to his broadly unlikable personality, arguing that it’s “totally reasonable and acceptable” for Americans to not want to live next to people who speak a different language or come from “a totally different culture.”

On a New York Post podcast released Oct. 29, Vance seemed to forget that people can hear what he’s saying when he speaks out loud and that America is, fundamentally, a nation of immigrants.

“It is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next door neighbors and say, I want to live next to people who I have something in common with,” Vance said, granting me and other normal Americans permission to never, ever live next to someone as ghoulishly dreadful as JD Vance.

The broader context of his comment involved immigration and the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to deport as many human beings as........

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