David Frum

He has no nonpolitical opinions.

Those are his opinions.

He's trying to take the Biden rule in 2016 and put a little bit more agency in it, which is first, if I think I'm going to be fired in favor of Rubio, that wasn't Trump's decision.

That was my decision because of my beloved fourth child because I'm such a family guy.

So I think one is he's trying to take back a little bit of power if he is dumped from the ticket.

But the second thing is he may be calculating if the Iran war does go really badly, then the Republican nomination in 2028 may not be worth much.

And let's just continue our Biden-Clinton-Obama analogy.

Biden did not run in 2016.

Clinton did.

She lost.

Biden held off till 2020, won the nomination and won the presidency.

And so that may be part of Vance's calculation.

I think he won't have made any of those decisions.

So one of the things I understand about Vance is he's a very unusual Republican politician because he's a real –

He's a real book intellectual.

He gets his ideas about the world from books, not people.

That's why he believes in all these bizarre, ultra-traditionalist, neo-reactionary theories that circulate on the internet.

He's hyper online.

He's hyper intellectual.

If you were to ask a great tennis player, how do you hit the ball?