JD Vance Wrote Book Blurb For Jack Posobiec, Far-Right Influencer Of Pizzagate Fame

Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), endorsed a book published this month by Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer famous for helping spread the Pizzagate conspiracy theory in 2016.

Posobiec’s book, written with Joshua Lisec, is titled “Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them).”

Vance wrote an “editorial review,” commonly known as a blurb, praising the book. It’s a small but fresh example of how conspiracy theorists have become massively influential among Republicans.

“In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march through HR, college campuses, and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people,” Vance wrote. “In ‘Unhumans,’ Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.”

Posobiec has amassed over 2 million followers on X (formerly Twitter), and some party operatives last year described Posobiec as the next George Will in terms of his influence over GOP thought — despite, or perhaps because of, his radical views.

The book’s premise is that communists of history and modern-day progressives fundamentally oppose civilization itself — and therefore they’re not even really people. Hence the title.

“By becoming consumed by nihilism, unhumans oppose everything that makes up humanity,” Posobiec and Lisec write in their introduction. “As they are opposed to humanity itself, they place themselves outside the category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman.”

Book blurbs are part of an elite reciprocal favor economy and typically are written by people who have not actually read the book they’re blurbing. But it’s clear why Vance might have