Money is only part of Trump’s ability to influence. He also has the RNC chair. He can get anyone who doesn’t fall in line primaried. Vance doesn’t have these sorts of connections.

He absolutely holds ideas that are as bad or worse. He doesn’t have the charisma or the network to inact it though.

Humans jump through hoops to try and rationalize the bad acts of the people they like. Oftentimes that’s what it takes for them to finely admit it to themselves. What’s maybe even more important is what you do next. She has the resources to stand up with the victims, but she chose to remain silent.

She might have been willfully ignorant up to that point. Once she had evidence she couldn’t pretend to ignore she finally acted.

That’s such a small, manageable concern compared to the damage that is done by fossil fuels.