Protesters raged against JD Vance’s English countryside vacation by mocking the vice president with chubby-faced memes, demanding he “go home.”
Residents joined forces with people who had driven for hours to take part in the ‘Dance Against Vance’ protest, organized by the Stop Trump Coalition.
Vance thundered into the Cotswolds, a sprawling area of natural beauty in south-west England, during the weekend in a 20-strong convoy. Roads around the tiny Hamlet of Dean, Oxfordshire, where he is staying in an 18th-century manor house with his family, have been closed. Secret Service agents have liaised with British police to check people’s identification and generally hobble day-to-day life.
That, and Vance’s apparent political rap sheet, has rankled the locals. So much so that around 100 ga