

Because he’s holding out for a spot when Trump dies. Everyone in the conservative sphere is circling the White House like sharks because they know half of everyone is gone as soon as Vance sits down - because half of them are in those seats on account of being friends with Trump and nothing more.



More importantly, Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point. It was mostly seen as an idle, rural thing, and it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK. Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth to the general awareness, and it worked.