Absolutely - it was only the 1990s we really needed a term that could encompass the policies of both Thatcher and Reagan and of Blair and Clinton.

Plus growing currency of neoconservatism at same time popularised neo- terms (not v. popular after WW2 due to earlier neos tending to end as fascists).

I had to look it up - 81 years of age and still only the sixth oldest Senator.

And will Vance - the soon to be most powerful man in the world and the final gravedigger of American and global democracy - be in even the tiniest way discommoded by one of his friends being a perve on twitter?

Given that one is a fascist demagogue and the other is a deranged narcissistic loon I genuinely do wonder what picture would be evidence of what a normal person would call a close friendship?

Do they go fishing together?

Has Rod cooked his famous Bouillabaisse for JD?

I actually DGAF.

I've been following Rod's genuinely pathetic descent into christo-fascist lunacy for probably pushing twenty years now.

But go ahead and believe his fantasies of being a major public intellectual who has the ear of Vice Presidents.

You believe Rod Dreher?

At what point exactly did Rod and JD's paths intersect so they could become 'close' friends?

Was it when Rod was out in Shitsville Louisiana destroying his marriage and alienating his family?

Or more recently when he's been living in fascist Hungary?

Or so he likes to pretend...

Dreher is such a pathetic serial fantasist I very much doubt he knows Vance at all well - if he did he'd surely have returned in triumph to the US to some sort of wingnut welfare job in the White House rather than be petulantly languishing in self-imposed exile in Budapest.

See also, “I am a Labour supporter which means I oppose every decision Labour has made for the last 90 years.”