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MAGA and Maturity

JD Vance vs the Pope was a revealing moment

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Edward Pearlman
Jun 06, 2025
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Recently, J.D. Vance and the soon-to-be pope had a direct disagreement that may reveal a great deal about the emotional maturity of the MAGA movement.

To me, maturity tracks with the natural growth of babies into kids into adults, and never really ends, if people are open to it. For most people, our first intimate contacts as babies are with our mother a…

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