Summary
JD Vance’s ski trip to Vermont’s Sugarbush Resort was met with hundreds of protesters following his confrontational behavior toward Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.
Demonstrators carried signs calling Vance a “traitor” and suggesting he “go ski in Russia.”
A resort employee posted an unauthorized political message in the snow report criticizing the administration’s environmental policies.
The backlash follows concerns over Vance’s alignment with Trump and his remarks urging European nations to engage with far-right parties.
The ‘based’ part wasn’t that they showed up to protest. It was that they potentially sacrificed their job, endangered their own comfort and security, to stand up for a moral code and take a side. Something that escapes centrists/fascists.