JD Vance has spent the better part of two weeks now spreading racist lies about Haitian immigrants in his home state of Ohio—refusing to let truth, decency, or even the security of a town just 53 miles away from where he grew up get in the way.

The problems he’s made lately for tens of thousands of his constituents in Springfield, Ohio — all to demagogue the immigration issue — amount to political malpractice, the likes of which we’ve never seen before as Trump is so fond of saying about almost anything. Only this time it’s true.