LARRY KUDLOW: What is JD Vance doing?

Larry Kudlow taking a swing at JD Vance for spending too much time online is a little rich coming from a guy who built a career on cable television, but the underlying gripe is worth sitting with anyway. Vance has spent the last few months treating the vice presidency like a Twitter account with a security detail attached, and it shows. Posting is not policy. Owning a news cycle for six hours is not the same as moving a bill or fixing a supply chain.

The frustration here isn't ideological, it's practical. Vance is one of the sharper minds this administration has, and instead of using that on trade files or the border or actual legislative fights, he's out there dunking on critics and getting dunked back on. That's a fine hobby for a senator with time to kill. It's a strange use of a vice president's bandwidth when there's real work sitting on the desk.

None of this means Vance should go quiet or stop being himself. Voters like that he talks like a normal person instead of a press release. But there's a difference between being online and being consumed by it, and the second one starts to look like avoidance. If the reset Kudlow's calling for means fewer viral spats and more actual output, that's not an insult. It's a favor.