Be careful what you wish for. It must be said, the outcome may be unexpected.

Also, Vance's role is not to be the successor to the king. He's there like all VP to be blamed when the time is right.

I think Scott had a subscriber only post a couple of weeks ago that was tiptoeing in the direction of admitting that all his BS concern about woke universities helped get us here but I can now find no trace of it (though I'm not a subscriber so that may be normal).

edit found it:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/twilight-of-the-edgelords

Still not read it as it's paywalled, but there's a response that suggests "the edgelord were right" implying Scott has started to realise the edgelords were wrong (though of course he can't just say that simply so it's all very vague):

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-edgelords-were-righ...