(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/ The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)THE PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUAL Rod Dreher, back from his sojourn in Hungary, has set about destroying his most influential friendship: with Vice President JD Vance. Without Dreher, Vance might have remained a center-right venture capitalist, perhaps even a Never Trumper. For Dreher, this means “Vance embodies the actual diversity of America even if the right’s self-described ‘heritage Americans’ don’t like it.” But when given opportunities to demonstrate this leadership, the vice president has repeatedly chosen the morally and politically expedient action instead. ShareTHE BLOGGER’S FRIENDSHIP with Vance evidently made it difficult for him to see the vice president clearly.