JD Vance says ‘anti-family’ Dems took ‘childless cat lady’ remark out of context: ‘Lie of the left’
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Vance slammed Democrats for their ‘anti-child’ and ‘anti-family’ attitudes.
Sen. JD Vance fired back at Democrats for their latest attack on his recently revived quip about “childless cat ladies” running the country, accusing them of taking the remark out of context.
“If you look at the full context of what I said, it’s very clear the Democrats have tried to take this thing out of context and blow it out of proportion, which is what they always do because they don’t have an agenda to run on themselves,” he told Fox News’ Trey Gowdy on “Sunday Night in America.”
In the 2021 interview in focus, Vance said, “We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
He also specifically called out prominent left-wing figures, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as examples of that type.
After the comment resurfaced, the Ohio senator and Trump running mate took heat from the likes of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actress Jennifer Aniston, and the Harris campaign for allegedly devaluing women who do not have children or are unable to have children.
“If you look at what the American people are most concerned about, it’s not an out-of-context quip I made three years ago. It’s the fact that Kamala Harris, the border czar, opened the American southern border. It’s the fact that the Democratic Party has become explicitly anti-family in some of their policies,” he said.
“In fact, you just heard Kamala Harris in a surfaced clip recently talk about how it was a bad idea to have kids because of climate change anxiety, so what I’m trying to get at here is that it’s important for us to be pro-family as a country. Of course, for a whole host of reasons, it’s not going to work out for some people. We should pray for those people and have sympathy for them. I still think that means we should be pro-family, generally speaking, as a party,” he added.
“There are a whole host of people who don’t have children for a whole host of reasons, and they certainly are great people who can participate fully in the life of this country,” he said, adding shortly after, “So this is not a criticism and was never a criticism of everybody without children. That is a lie of the left. It is a criticism of the increasingly anti-parents and anti-child attitude of the left.”
During an appearance on “Morning Joe” on Tuesday, Jong-Fast was asked to respond to Vance’s “politically damaging” comments in light of a recent Pew survey that found a sharp uptick in U.S. adults who aren’t interested in having children.
“What’s interesting is that this is this natalism that comes from an authoritarian playbook, right? That there need to be more ‘White children,’ right? That’s the idea,” Jong-Fast reacted.
“This is about great replacement theory racism, right? This is what this is. So don’t misunderstand it for him wanting more children. He wants a certain kind of racist thing,” she claimed.
Vance is married to U.S. lawyer Usha Vance, a daughter of Indian immigrants, with whom he shares three biracial children.
The MSNBC analyst’s comments were met with sharp criticism on social media.
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