Clara Jeffery Comments On Vance Visit

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Oh, this one hits like a jolt of cold water straight to the face.

The editor‑in‑chief of a major liberal magazine — not some fringe blogger, but the top voice at Mother Jones — actually suggested that the children of the sitting vice president of the United States deserve to be booed in public so they “know now what their father is about.” Let that sink in for a second. Not a political opponent. Not even JD Vance himself. His kids, who are all under the age of eight, while at Disneyland.

You read that right. Clara Jeffery didn’t even try to couch it in some half‑baked metaphor or political theory. She went on Bluesky — the platform beloved by those who fled X to create their own echo chamber — and flat out declared, “better those kids know now what their father is about.” And as if that weren’t enough, she twisted the knife in a follow‑up post, speculating that Vance wants his own kids to be booed so he can bask in the optics. Who even thinks like that?

And if you think this was just some one‑off moment of poor judgment, scroll through Jeffery’s history and watch the pattern emerge. Remember when she lashed out at a flight attendant for the crime of saying “have a blessed night?” Yes, seriously. She turned a friendly send‑off into a diatribe about “creeping Christian nationalism,” complete with a snide jab from her “rowmate.” Or how about back in 2017, when she lamented that the name “tomahawk missile” might offend Native Americans? Or in 2016, when she proudly shared that her eight‑year‑old parroted Hillary Clinton slogans? It’s a greatest hits album of ideological grievance and performative outrage.

Now fast‑forward to this week, when the Vice President of the United States takes his family on a vacation — a simple family trip, mind you — and the reaction from a leading liberal media figure is… public shaming of his kids? This isn’t just a bad look. It’s not just tone‑deaf. It’s something far uglier, something that hints at a political culture that has completely lost its moral compass. And while JD Vance calmly shrugged it off, posting that he and his family had a great time, the echo in the background is hard to ignore.

Because you can almost hear the applause from the digital mob, the same crowd that cheers when public figures are harassed in restaurants, at theaters, at concerts. You can feel the temperature rising as political disagreement mutates into something more sinister — something that says, if we can’t get to you, we’ll get to your family. And in the middle of it all stands a vice president who simply wanted to take his kids to Disneyland.

So here’s the real question, the one no one on Bluesky seems willing to ask: if booing a politician’s children at a theme park is now fair game, what’s next? And who’s waiting in the wings to make sure you don’t find out until it’s too late?

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