Earlier this week, the New York Times published a collection of personal emails between J.D. Vance and a law school friend of his.  The two were politically far apart, but for many years shared a close and respectful friendship in which they discussed the things that they agreed and disagreed about.  Then the friend, Sofia Nelson, who identifies as a "gender queer radical pragmatist" broke off the friendship over Vance's support for an Arkansas bill banning gender reassignment for minors.  Here's what Vance said that was apparently too much for Sofia's "radical pragmatist' sensibilities ...

But the good news is that the Times' readers are surprisingly unpersuaded by this hit job.  Below is a sampling of the top comments on the Vance story as of earlier today.