We've all received and said things that if we could do it over we would say things a little differently.
Anon looks to just a handful of years ago pre-Q disclosures, and Anon remembers lots of NPC-like meme-vocal-text echo pattern of statement generation where Anon repeated statements Anon thought were correct but turned out to be designed to both keep Anon blind and to turn me into an 'asset' to believe the dialectic source's 'opponents' were the bad guys and so Anon believed the evil was sourced from the source of the voice echoing the narrative they didn't source.
Anon remembers believing years ago that the GOP should be destroyed and Democrat Party take 100% control, because Anon was brainwashed by fake news narrative (racists, war mongers, GWB 'representative' of Republican Party as it ought to be, etc, etc)
Anon see mistaken smears as not absolutist, not permanent, but an output based on the information in the minds of the speaker at the time.
Vance could very well have believed some of the fake news narrative and made statements in accordance with that op mockingbird pattern.
Anon can relate.
What happens when the rate of 'flipping' to MAGA exceeds the rate of 'flipping' to anti-MAGA?