Yes. I would care. I’m a piece of shit conservative who lives and dies by optics. I’m trying to be president. The moment I’m seen as just a silly little couch fucker I will be ripped apart by the mob.

That’s why me and my fellow conservatives are so obviously unaffected. We think about how others will perceive us. We think about it and then we do a little dance so others know we’re above it all.

Even if I don’t care I can’t afford to let people think I do. Trump may be a successful child rapist but this is still a country full of people who will drop you for… seeming excited, or looking silly in a tank, or denying you are a crook.

(I imagined I was Vance. Normal people wouldn’t care. A maga vice president is not like your coworkers and neighbors though.)