Nearly every time United States Vice-President J.D. Vance steps into an interview with the media, he knows he’s in hostile territory. As a conservative, he’s not unique in possessing that knowledge; he is, however, uniquely gifted at acting on it.

That’s because Vance pushes back — he doesn’t evade, for the most part, or cower; usually, he ends up ridiculing his interviewers with his superior grasp of the law, the facts and the morality of the general population. An excellent demonstration of this was provided on Sunday morning, in a 20-minute interview with CNN’s Margaret Brennan, host of “Face the Nation.”