Politicians used to be boring in public. It was better then

Politicians used to be boring in public. It was better then

I just turned 56, and as a Gen Xer, I am old enough to remember when the vice presidency was a ceremonial job that included attending funerals for foreign dignitaries, sitting behind a president during the State of the Union address, attending ribbon cuttings, but mostly long stretches of doing nothing anyone noticed. I miss those days. This past week, Vice President JD Vance engaged with Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen on X, the latter …