Yeah, but Christian nut jobs will freak out about the mark of the beast or whatever shit.

Here’s the thing, Vance didn’t make up the story, a Nazi did. I’m guessing Vance is now claiming responsibility because lying about the origin is better than the truth, that he’s just repeating lies from self avowed Nazis.

Ohio could possibly sue him civilly because of the bomb threats that caused them to shut down schools. That’s the best I got.

If anyone is hurt over this, then they likely have standing for a civil suit (see Alex Jones).

Criminal it’s definitely more tricky. Trump will likely get away with telling his followers to storm the capitol, so I doubt “eating cats and dogs” comes close to the same standard.

Once upon a time, admitting to something like this would have been an impeachable offense. But that’s long sailed as something Congress would fairly enforce.

Conspiracy bullshit and racism.

Conservative debate has basically devolved into “But, can you tell me what a woman is?”. Trump could have a team of the best conservative debaters in his ear and he’d do just about as well.

Also doesn’t help that he doesn’t listen to jack shit so he’d likely rip out the headphone for being annoying.

Yes, but then being unwilling to take any concession is not. The green party could, for example, pull itself off of ballots in key states or elections when the Democrats agree to their policies.

Running a doomed to fail candidate that only weakens the likelihood of the most left candidates and pulling progressives out of the Democrat party is a bad move.

Say what your will about RFK, he’s getting political power from Trump by dropping (if Trump wins). What will the green party get? Nothing.

Dropping and endorsing after concessions is the real way for a minority party to weld power. Running no matter what is just delusion that works counter to any goal you might have.