The gubernatorial campaign ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother weaponizes childhood trauma, exposing a rot in our politics that no amount of party discipline can mask.
By using Amy Acton's estranged mother to attack her childhood trauma, Vivek Ramaswamy has traded basic human decency for a cruel strategy that is now costing him the race.
Vivek Ramaswamy used a candidate's estranged mother in a cruel attack ad, a tactic JD Vance defended as tough politics, but it is a betrayal of conservative values.