I have a hard time figuring out how much to believe in this interview with U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, the populist conservative from Yale. His explanations for his changing views are too perfect, too in sync with what needs to be said to survive in today’s GOP … Other quick thoughts: 1.) He’s right about working people getting screwed over the past 40 years (without mentioning the era started with Reagan’s supply-side economics) 2.) He has an out for most everything he says. 3.) He dances around the 2020 election and Jan. 6, shifting the debate and blame every which way. 4.) He’s eyeing the White House, not the Naval Observatory (see second sentence and points 1-3).