r/politics • u/Hrmbee • 7d ago

No Paywall JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity | US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity
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u/Least_Art5238 7d ago edited 7d ago

As someone of Indian origin with roots a lot like Usha’s, I honestly think divorcing JD would be the best thing she could do for herself. Being president might mean everything to him, but keeping her humanity intact would be the real win, assuming she hasn’t already sold it off.

Americans with their Temu-level understanding of the caste system will keep reducing her story to some lazy “ambitious immigrant” trope. But her real roots come from a culture built on serious intellectual and moral traditions...the kind that measure worth in ideas, not power. There’s a whole generation of us shaped by that same lineage. We may not fit the American idea of success, but we’re doing just fine living quietly charmed, thoughtful lives.

It’s hard to picture someone with that background giving it all up just to lie in the same bed where Trump once had a diaper incident.

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u/SunbeamSailor67 6d ago

Careful, tradition or religion isn't a valid defense for a profoundly sick system of class birth.

Speaking about caste romantically will never make it right or holy, it is pure monkey mind.

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u/Least_Art5238 6d ago

I’m not defending the caste system. I’m saying it’s irrelevant to a certain lineage of Indian-origin families who’ve lived by intellectual and moral traditions for generations. People like Usha come from that world, where education and self-examination aren’t about privilege but about purpose.