‘Didn’t sign up for weekly churchgoer’: JD Vance ‘feels terrible’ for taking his wife Usha Vance to church

“I felt kind of bad about it, right? Like, you didn’t sign up for a weekly churchgoer. I feel terrible for my wife because we go to church almost every Sunday, unless we’re on the road.”, said Vance talking about his wife in the interview.

The Hillbilly Elegy author added even though he helps with the children, there is increased responsibility on his wife, who has not converted to Christianity, to manage them during weekly mass.

Talking about converting, Vance said that his nascent steps into Catholicism arose out of contemplation for “big things” in life as he found the values of meritocracy, “deeply wanting and deeply lacking.”

“I thought the Christianity that I had discarded as a young man answered the questions about being a virtuous person better than the logic of the American meritocracy, “ Vance said, answering about how Catholicism appealed to him.

A child of Indian immigrants, Usha said at the Republican National Convention in July this year that her husband adapted to her vegetarian diet and even learned how to cook Indian food.

Vance, who called Trump “America’s Hitler” years before being nominated as the vice presidential candidate, was seen defending his political rhetoric in the interview on the NYT Podcasts. He also clarified his controversial stance on “childless cat ladies”, abortion rights , Kamala Harris and immigration.

Vance today is one of the most dogged Trump defenders, many of whose opinions reflect those of the former president. He has also emerged as “the standard-bearer”of the ‘New Right’ a loose movement of young conservatives trying to push the Republican Party in a more populist, nationalist and culturally conservative direction”, according to Politico.

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