J.D. Vance endorsed Pizzagate conspiracy theorist’s book that says liberals aren’t human

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the running mate of former President Donald Trump, wrote a blurb endorsing Unhumans, a book by anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and his ghostwriter Joshua Lisec. Posobiec is a lead promoter of the anti-gay #Pizzagate conspiracy theory that eventually morphed into QAnon, whose believers accuse LGBTQ+ people, their allies, Democrats, and media elites of sexually abusing kids.

Posobiec’s book — subtitled The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) — accuses the “far-left” of representing “the “forces of unhumanity” and of using tactics that “are specifically designed to unleash terror on everyday people and revoke their human rights.”

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“For as long as there have been beauty and truth, love and life, there have also been the ugly liars who hate and kill,” the book states. And the book says these “people of anti-civilization” have gone under the titles of communists, socialists, leftists, progressives, and Black Lives Matter protestors, according to the progressive news site Mother Jones.

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“They don’t believe what they say. They don’t care about winning debates. They don’t even want equality. They just want an excuse to destroy everything. They want an excuse to destroy you,” the book states. “With power, unhumans undo civilization itself. They undo order. They undo the basic bonds of society that make communities and nations possible. They destroy the human rights of life, liberty, and property—and undo their own humanity in the process by fully embracing nihilism, cynicism, and envy.”

The book alleges that democracy “has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans.” The book also praises Spanish military dictator Francisco Franco and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, both who overthrew their countries’ governments and murdered thousands of their opponents, The New York Times reported.

Vance’s endorsement of the book is one of several on its publisher’s website.

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

Because democratic means don’t work to handle “inhumans,” Posobiec suggests violent alternatives, illustrated by his book’s support of the Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. Both Posobiec and Vance have voiced support for the rioters who tried to stop the Senate from certifying the electoral victory of now-President Joe Biden over then-President Donald Trump. Vance has agreed with Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen by a nationwide conspiracy of vote rigging that only occurred in the states that Trump lost and couldn’t be shown to exist in court.

Other anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives wrote endorsement blurbs for the book, too, including disgraced former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump’s transphobic son Donald Trump Jr., and President Trump’s queerphobic former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Political columnist David French recently told MSNBC that Vance “is a very online guy and he knows good and well who Jack Posobiec is.”

“He knows good and well what Jack Posobiec stands for,” French said. “So this is a bold choice to endorse a book by a guy who spread the Pizzagate lie that ultimately ended up in a violent incident at the pizza restaurant. That’s a choice to make.”

French also noted that, in 2021 Vance said he considers far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones a trustworthy source of information.

Jones — the founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist broadcast InfoWars — was also a major amplifier of the so-called #Pizzagate conspiracy theory. The theory — which claimed Democrats were sexually abusing kids in the nonexistent basement of Ping Pong Comet, a gay-owned pizzeria in the nation’s capital — led to a gunman going to the pizzeria in real life. Pizzagate’s narratives were also a precursor to the QAnon conspiracy movement, which led to the now-common right-wing views that Democrats and cultural “elites” are using LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” to “groom” children for sexual abuse.

Vance has also recently come under fire for writing the foreword Dawn’s Early Light, a book written by Kevin Roberts, the head of the influential, far-right Heritage Foundation who oversaw the creation of Project 2025, a Christian Nationalist plan to gut the U.S. government, fill it with political appointees loyal to Trump, and roll back civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, workers, the environment, and taxpayer-funded social programs.

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